4 NOVEMBER 1911, Page 11

Told in the Dormitory. By R. G. Jennings. Melbourne. (Thomas

Lothian. 8s. 6d. net.)—The "Dormitory," it will be observed,

belongs to an Australian School, and the stories are of a corre- sponding character. So we hear of how it fared with an anarchist who was present when the Duke of York went on a certain great occasion through the streets of Melbourne. In another we

hear of the fortunes of a bushranger. The cricket story might have happened anywhere, but the events of the "Ring" could

hardly have happened anywhere outside Australia. "Kookaburra," too, speaks its origin in its name, and when we come to read it we fmd what could not be on the top side of the world—a school where the headmaster also runs a sheep station. The twelve stories, good in themselves, have a pleasing touch of novelty.