FOR BOYS FROM THIRTEEN TO SIXTEEN.
The Riddle of Randley School and Queer Doings at Attlebarough are two excellent school stories, in which there are some natural scenes, but in which there is a frank admix- ture of farce and fantasy. Allen's House at Randley has fallen on a " lazy " period, and Tony Coble, having read Tom Brown's School Days to the effect that when a time of lethargy settles upon a House any shock or abnormal sort of interest may be advantageous, conceives the plan of dressing up as a hooded man, and plays his part so well that his associates endure weeks of salutary mystery and alarm before the secret is at last exploded. The excellent fun of Queer Doings at Attleborough is supplied by an Indian boy, who discovers a liquid by which at will he can render people invisible.
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