Big Cypress. By Kirk Munroe. (S.S.U.)—This is a story with
a purpose, a purpose to which the author devotes much energy, the setting forth of the wrongs of the Seminole Indians of Florida. But this characteristic does not interfere with the liveliness and interest of the narrative. We have a vivid picture of Florida life. As for the Seminoles, it seems that there are at last some influential people interested in their cause. " Our company," says the land-agent of the Florida and West Indian Railway Company, "consider the Seminoles to be one of the chief attractions in the eyes of tourists of this portion of Florida," and so they are to be allowed to keep their own. Right is for once reinforced by the " almighty dollar." For a country that started just one hundred and twenty years ago with the most splendid assertion of the natural rights of man, the United States have a most astonishing record.
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