10 OCTOBER 1896, Page 13

The Holiday Prize. By Ellinor Davenport Adams. (Jarrold and Sons.)—Miss

Montague offers a great prize to that boy who during the holidays should bear himself in the fashion most nearly approaching perfect knighthood. The boys accordingly have to wait upon the girls. Misunderstandings arise; the two parties are divided into two camps ; and the girls—so this some- what partial historian will have it—get very much the best of it. They even beat them at cricket, surely a somewhat unlikely event. The tale is pleasantly written, with a good deal of fun in it, and prettily illustrated.