7 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 12

The Inseparables. By Chid= Chalmers. (Digby, Long, and Co.):--This is

a story of school-life, which has not, we think, attained more than a moderate amount of success. These deep. laid plots and terrible misunderstandings, ending, or seeming to end, in the discomfiture of the righteous, but really bringing about the discomfiture of evil-doers, do not really happen. The one thing which proves an insoluble mystery—and this is not often the case —is pilfering. But a shirt discovered in a study with examination questions written on it in copying-ink strikes us as being a very fancy article indeed.