The Wolf - Mett. By Frank Powell. (Cassell and Co. Ss. 6d.)
—This "Tale of Amazing Adventure in the Under World"
ought to Satisfy the very strongest appetite for horrors. In such creatures as the great saurian, the spider as tall as a man, and the wolf-men themselves, not at all like the pious Hyper- boreans of Greek fancy—the scene is the Polar regions, only that.
they are visited in a submarine—we have horrors piled on horrors. It is to be hoped that the boy-reader is not visited by such things
in his dreams.---Not a bad alterative might be found in The Escape of the Mullingong, by G. E. Farrow (Blackie and Son, 5s.),
in which these monstrous creations of fancy are presented in a comic aspect. Mr. Farrow is a leading light in the "Alice in Wonderland" school—he will not, we are sure, resent the descrip-
tion—and touches all these with a fun and fancy of his own.— Yet another change may be found in Yoppy : the Autobiography of a Monkey, by Mollie Lee Clifford (Gay and Bird, 5s.) Possibly the monkey who tells of his doings in this amusing book is as remote from the real as the monsters, tragic or comic, who are pictured in the books noticed above; still, it will be found enter- taining to read about him. He is at least the conventional monkey very well drawn.
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