Chained Lightning. By Ralph Graham Taber.s (Macmillan. and _Co. 68.
fid. net.)-Here is a • tale of two railroad tele- graphists of one of the Western Stated, who left their. work and journeyed down , to Mexico, hunting adventure and dollars; mining gold, and coasting round the ports, buying dear. their experienceof life. It is carefully and honestly written s indeed, the only complaint we have to make of the writer is that he is far too generous with his material. He . has chosen to cast in the form of -a novel information, which_ would have made an admirable book of travel ; and this novel he has .deoorated with genuine and serious photographs by himself and M. RaVelle. Ho has used as its foundation " local colour" which- is full of interest and of. romance, and has overlaid • it with invented conversation and conventional love-interest. The• truth is that it is perfectly easy to see where the foundation an the surface are joined together, and that, while the- foriper is altogether: delightful, we do not care in the least for Belville'a emotional crises or Larry's Trisliisms.
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