24 DECEMBER 1887, Page 28

Right Onward ; or, Bays and Bays. By Ismay Thorn.

(John F. Shaw and Co.)—It is doubtless difficult nowadays to write a story of schoolboy life that shall be at once original and amusing. The area for invention is limited, and has been already explored by experienced investigators. In Right Onward there is an outside interest in the nature of a family secret, and therefore the story may find willing readers among young people, bat the author may easily improve upon it, and there is sufficient merit in its pages to make it pro- bable that his next book will be at once new, healthy, and more

really boylike in tone.