SAUL'S DAUGHTER. By Mary Gaunt. (T. Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.)
— Although Mrs. Gaunt's new novel is not written with quite the authority of that admirable romance, The Forbidden Town, it is exceedingly good reading. The scene is laid at Aden, and the heroine, Bridget Ilainiond, the daughter of the Governor, elopes with a beautiful bouncily:, who looks like a Viking and habitually behaves like a coward. The only thing which is not quite convincing is Gerald Wilmot's reason for running away with Bridget. She is an embarrass- ment when he has done it, and he seems to be tired of her before his wedding ring is on her finger. The local colour of the block house, the Abyssinian border and the natives is excellently depicted, and Bridget's final subterfuge for summon- ing aid against the attack by the natives to which her husband's desertion exposes her is most ingenious. The account of Gerald's panic when he is lost because he will not wait for his guide who is tending a sick camel is almost uncomfortably vivid, and the final catastrophe is most graphically described.
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