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The Captain's Daughter. By Gwendolen Overton. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—This

is a story of military life on the United States frontier, or remoter regions. The subject is the speciality of the author, and she makes a lively story of it. Marian is a some- what self-conscious, one might almost say forward, young woman, —for all this happens while the finishing school in the East is still a year distant ; but it is good enough to read about her. And Haggarty, who has taught her all that is worth knowing concerning outdoor life, is a quite admirable person. What would the world, especially the world of humorous or semi-humorous fiction, have done without the tragi-comic Irishman? Nor must we forget a very important persona in the little drama, the dog Puggy-Wuggy:

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