and Windus. 6s.)—The Mistress of Bonaventure is a Canadian story
of life in the great prairie. Not only does the book give an admirable picture of the conditions of agricultural life in the Dominion, but from the opening, in which a most thrilling chase is depicted, the whole book is crammed with very exciting adven- tures. Indeed, for people who wish to study Canadian life the adventures are really too interesting, for the reader will be inclined to gallop through the book at express speed, and that is not the way to study a picture of the conditions of a new country. Mr. Bindloss is not quite such an adept at creating persons as at describing adventures; still, if the characters of the book are a little conventional in type, they are quite real enough not to destroy the interest of the adventures in which they are engaged. On beginning the book the reader thinks that the pace is too hot to last, and that it will be impossible for the author to avoid the anticlimax of having adventures first and explanations after. But this is not the case. The story explains itself as it goes along, and one of the very best of the adventures is kept for the end of the book.
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