20 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 10

The Luck of the Eardleys. By Sheila E. Braine. (Blackie

and Son.)—A diamond necklace constitutes the" lock" of the Eardleys. The Eardleys, father and daughter, and the last of their race, are on the point of being parted from the ancestral estate, when the diamond necklace is ascertained to be concealed somewhere in an old parsonage. It had been supposed to be at the bottom of the sea. How it is recovered, and under what peculiar circum- stances, we leave the young reader to discover. The Eardleys appear somewhat late on the scene, about a third of the way through the story, but boys will forget this in the humour of the narrative and the excitement attending the search for the " lucky " necklace and its ultimate recovery.