The Golden Book of Youth. By Amy B. Barnard. (The
Pilgrim Press. 3s. (3d. net.)—Miss Barnard has collected with the greatest industry a multitude of stories about "noble deeds of boys and girls." Some of these stories are familiar; many will be new to most readers. Indeed, we cannot speak too highly of the patience and perseverance with which Miss Barnard has used every source of information. Not the least interesting chapter is the second headed "Deeds of Boy Scouts." Manifestly the movement has already had great results, not only in the corporate courage which such associations develop, but in individual deeds of heroism. We see discipline, for instance, in the action of the boys at the Stoat's Nest accident; the single acts of courage are of every kind, not the less laudable among them being the giving of help in carrying out the law, as when a boy blew the whietla of a constable who was being maltreated by sympathisers with a drunken prisoner. The modesty, too, of some of these youngsters is attractive. One almost ran away to escape the presentation of a medal. Miss Barnard takes us to many places, mean streets at home and battle- fields abroad, and always has things worth hearing to tell us. But could not something better than the boy Ring Richard II. have been found for a frontispiece ?
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