Gubbins Minor, and Borne Other Fellows. By Fred Whishaw. (Griffith,
Ferran, Browne, and Co.)—This is a pleasant and entertaining story of life, though it will not, we fear, meet with the approval of some high authorities in educational matters. There is, we regret to say, nothing of the " fierce intellectual stress" in it. Cricket, football, athletics, the less commendable amusement of ferreting rabbits in a forbidden spot, and other things which schoolboys like, it may be, more than becomes them, are the staple of the book. Still, there is a wholesome tone about it; work is at least treated with respect ; a boy will not be the worse, and may quite conceivably be the better, for reading it. Sophocles. Edited by R. C. Jebb, Litt.D. (Cambridge University Press.)—Professor Jebb here gives separately the text of the seven plays, as he has settled it in his annotated edition. He has prefixed an account of the text and its sources,
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