6 DECEMBER 1902, Page 10

The New Pupil. By Raymond Jacberns. (Macmillan and Co. 4s.

6d.)—Pollie Quebe, the "new pupil," would have been a hand- ful in herself, but when she presents herself with a parrot, and, throwing off her cloak, reveals the fact that she is in boy's clothes —assumed, she explains, to meet her father's wish that she had been a boy—she quite overpowers Fraulein, who has to take charge of her. This, it must be allowed, makes a promising beginning, which, we may say, does not end in disappointment. The New Pupil is a really good story, with characters nicely discriminated, and a reasonable amount of not extravagent incident.