An Eton Boy's Letters. By Nugent Bankes. (Cassell and Co.
53.)—Unless we are greatly mistaken, these letters are (with, no doubt, some necessary alterations and omissions) the genuine letters of a boy written from Eton. We are able to congratulate Mr. Bemires upon having achieved a decided success. The reader is enabled to follow in out- line the career of an Etonian from Fourth Form to Sixth; and the letters are judiciously selected so as to exhibit as many different phases of school life as possible. The period can be fixed with confidence as being the later "seventies." The book will recall memories to many old Etonians, while it may be read with real advantage by those fortunate persons who have Eton still in the future. Some few of the details are no doubt a little out of date, particularly those relating to Triads, but the essential features are wholly unchanged. Upon the whole, we think that this book is entitled to an honourable place in the list—a singularly short one—of successful descriptions of school life.
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