The House Prefect, by Desmond Coke (H. Frowde, and Hodder
and Stoughton, 5s.), is a tale of English school life, turning on the custom, which seems so strange to outsiders, but, on the whole, works so well, in which the boy is associated in the business of ruling. School life is a difficult subject for fiction, but Mr. Coke knows how to manage it.— Another school story is Two Scape- graces, by Walter C. Rhoades (Blackie and Son, 3s. ad.), its' characteristics being fairly well indicated by its title.—Yet a third on the same subject is A Discontented Schoolgirl, by Ray-. mond Jaeberns (W. and R. Chambers, 5s.) It is certainly amusing, and, if books can instruct, instructive. Surely we have seen something of this kind before. It is a schoolgirl's letter :— " DEAR Lin,—You are a sneak.—Your loving friend, A. W."— Another treatment of a similar theme may be found in Betty's First Term, by Lilian F. Wevill (Blackie and Son, 3s. 6d.)
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