26 OCTOBER 1895, Page 23

Schoolboys Three. By W. P. Kelly. (Downey and Co.)—The adventures

of the three boys at the College of St. Aloysius keep us interested to the end, but we are afraid the average boy will find the task of struggling through three hundred closely printed pages somewhat of a trial. However, Schoolboys Three is well written, the characters are good, particularly Ballingham and the Irishman Kilgaunon, and they and the hero, with the aid of various incidents and occasional escapades, pass the time to their own satisfaction, and perhaps to that of sympathetic boy-readers.