Two Little Travellers. By Ray Cunningham. (T. Nelson and Sons.
2s. 6d.)—This is a story of a kind which the grown-up reader who cannot divest himself of an unreasonable liking for the probable can hardly appreciate. If the girls for whom, as we are told, it is written have not learnt to be severely practical, they may well enjoy the adventures of these "two little travellers." What does it matter if another world has to be invented for them to wander about in ? Still, we cannot but think that Mr. Ascott Hope in his All Astray (A. and C. Black, 3s. 6d.) has chosen a better way. There is no more experienced and skilful teller of such stories. His boys, terrified by fictions with which they are regaled on the way to a new school, run away, and find themselves in the very place which they are seeking to avoid. That, perhaps, is not exactly probable, but it is a farcical surprise of good quality. The next adventure, when they mistake a fast for a stopping train, and are whirled on to London, is wholly within the region of probability. It is a capital story.—Jack and Black. By Andrew Home. (W. and B. Chambers. 38. 6d.)—Mr. Home is another well-known teller of school-stories. He apologises for changing his scene; quite unnecessarily ; most stories of young heroes begin with their schools, and, indeed, keep them there for an unconscionably long time. This, however, is not a complaint which readers are likely to make when Mr. Home is the chronicler. Probably they will be pleased with both parts of his story.
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