For Treasure Bound. By Harry Collingwood. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—In
this book Mr. Collingwood gives us a new Japhet in search of a father, who is quite real, and turns out to be distinctly flesh-and-blood. Japhet is, in the first place, in search of treasure, the secret of which has been told him by a wrecked and dying Spanish sailor. So he and his friend Bob Trunnion, a salt of the fine old " shiver my timbers " pattern, start off in a model yacht, the ' Water Lily,' and after terrible adventures, in the course of which they see the sea-serpent—which is good enough, however, to swallow not them but a whale—and fight with pirates on sea and savages on land, find both father and treasure. Mr. Collingwood manages all his sensations very cleverly, and his volume is a most readable one. He makes one mistake, the introduction of a girl into the story. No doubt Ella is a very bright and attractive girl, but she is out of place in what is most emphatically a boy's book.
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