10 DECEMBER 1892, Page 22

Stories of the Wild West. By Ascott Hope. (Nimmo, Hay,

and Mitchell.)—We do not know whether these stories have appeared before ; they are certainly well told and of a highly interesting kind. "A Captive of the Commanches " is, perhaps, the most striking, not the less so because there is no romance about it. It is plain prose ; the hero was a very commonplace person ; but its realism is highly effective. There are two stories of travellers lost on the prairie or among the hills. One, as Mr. Hope strongly suspects, was a good deal coloured by the original narrator ; the other is obviously an actual experience, and it is certainly the more effective of the two.