10 DECEMBER 1898, Page 25

The Randle of the Onhide. By Henry Inman. (Macmillan and

Co.)—Robert Thompson, who has fought in the Civil War, takes up a claim in the Far West, to which he removes his family, con- sisting of a wife, two sons, and two daughters. There is plenty to do in the way of work, and there is a fair amount of play too,. catching catfish, for instance. Then the Red Indian appears on the scene, and carries off one of the daughters for ransom. (Wks it the Comanches, as on p. 148, or the Cheyennes, as on p. 275, that did this ?) One of the best things in the book is the collec- tion of Indian legends ; that which tells the legend of the Great Spirit's gift of corn to man is particularly good.