16 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 38

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Stuck Up. By Nat Gould. (Routledge and Sons.) —Stuck Up, as its title implies, is an Australian story, and a very stirring one, too, of bushranging days. There are two brothers and a sister, who does her best to save them, and a determined In- spector, and a love-story, all of which are worked up into a narrative that moves briskly and retains an interest to the very last. We have read no better story of Nat Gould's than Stuck Up; the characters are life-like, the dramatic interest never flags, and a strong air of verisimilitude never leaves the narrative. It describes phases of Australian life in the seventies with great force and insight, and is well worth reading,