Partners. By H. F. Gethen. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—Thin "Schoolboy
Story" is really excellent. Tom Johnson goes to school, and strikes up a friendship with a certain Stephen Smith, to whom, by reason of his red hair, he gives the name of Rufus. Hence the "partnership," in which indeed there is, we may say, a, third sharer,—Tom's sister Nora. The proceedings and adventures of the three, partly at school and partly in the two homes, are excellently described. We do not think that the events which ended in the expulsion of the mischievous Wilson are very probable—boys do not contrive such elaborate schemes of revenge—but with this exception everything seems to us capitally managed. The adventures in the inn, where the two boys think, and have some apparent reason for thinking, that they have got into the company of murderers, are particularly good. Perhaps we might suggest that the two aunts are too unbearably disagreeable.
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