9 DECEMBER 1865, Page 22

Balderscourt ; or, Holiday Tales. By Rev. H. C. Adams.

(Routledge.) —This is a good boys' book, with creditable illustrations. The tales, ten in number, are well told and agreeably varied, and the comments of the juvenile circle that is supposed to be listening are natural and amusing. We get an exciting account of an unintentional visit to a smugglers' cave in Spain, an adventurous history of love-making in Sicily, two or three fairy tales, and two or three stories from feudal times, forming a whole likely to be popular with the class for which it is intended.