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long-lost brother Dick, accompanied by his nephew and two nieces,

heroines of this story. Their yacht is wrecked, and the three young people cast on an island. The brother departs on a some- what foolhardy expedition to seek relief, and so we get the "Sister Crimes." They encounter the usual perils of the situation, storms, savages, and so forth, and the reader will follow their fortunes without weariness. The worst fault we find in the book concerns the Eton and Harrow match. The brother mentioned above is an old Harrovian who would on no account be absent.

Yet his nearest relatives seem to think that it is played on the first three days of the week! It is almost a law of Nature that it is played on two days, and that these two are Friday and Saturday.