Dr. Burleigh's Boys. By Charles Edwardes. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—This
is a story of a kind that the boys of the more high-spirited sort will greatly appreciate, though it is to be hoped that it will not have on them the effect that "Jack Sheppard" is said to have had upon the children of the slums, for it tells bow the boy of the " Calcutta Preparatory School," led by two ingenious and audacious youngsters named Pilkington and Knowles, organise a successful rebellion against their crusty old head-master and an objectionable subordinate of the name of Robinson. They capture the one and confine him in a cave, while they render the other absolutely helpless in the school of which he is for a time the head. They even stand a siege. Ultimately the rebels surrender unconditionally to their tyrant, who is much more good-natured with them in future, having been benefited by the discipline he has undergone. There is plenty of " go" in this book, due largely to high spirits, and it only occasionally degenerates into too high " jinks."
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