12 OCTOBER 1901, Page 24

Lord Roberts. By Violet Brooke-Hunt. (Nisbet and Co. 6s.) —The

authoress writes this book, she tells us, " for boys." And very good reading it will be for them. She has told the story of Lord Roberta's doings from the day, now nearly half-a-century ago, when he set sail from Southampton for India. We hear of the ridge at Delhi, the storming of that city, of the Relief of Lucknow, of the Abyssinian Expedition, of Afghanistan, with the names of Kabul and Kandahar, and finally of South Africa. Here the authoress writes with special heartiness, because here she is speaking of what she has seen or heard on the spot. The book is an excellent specimen of its kind.