12 DECEMBER 1891, Page 29

The Last of the Bushrangers. By F. A. Hare. (Hurst

and Bla,ckett.)—There is a curious thing about this book. The date is thrown forward to 1892. For a serial this might pass; but why this foredating of an often-told tale ? It seems scarcely credible that so recently as 1881 a gang of bushrangers, with Ned Kelly at their head, should be at large in the Colony of Victoria, and should for nearly a year defy the efforts of the police to secure their capture. Superintendent Hare—the author of the book—at last brought them to bay ; how and with what result may be seen in the book under notice.