Follow the Right. By G. E. Wyatt. (Nelson.)—This is a
pleasantly written and otherwise agreeable story, with the slightest
of plots. An Eton boy saves the life of an old lady's dog at the risk of his own, and this almost unnecessarily gallant action brings him into the presence and good graces of his hitherto unknown grandfather, and also leads to a reconciliation between that grandfather and his own father. Altogether, Geoffrey Treherne, who sets everything to rights because he himself follows the right, and who wins an Oxford scholarship at sixteen, is an admirable hero to hold up before the eyes of boys. Nor is he any the worse that there is nothing sensational in the incidents which distin- guish his career up to the point where Mr. Wyatt leaves him. The interiors of the Mannington and Treherne households are also carefully and naturally sketched. Occasionally Mr. Wyatt falls into an undergraduate smartness of style, as when he writes of the Dean of St. Nicholas, that "though perfectly courteous, he managed to convey to his visitor in about two minutes that he was of rather less importance than an individual shrimp."
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