24 APRIL 1897, Page 12

The Tower of Ghilsan. By Surgeon-Major M. H. Greenhow. (R.

Bentley and Son.)—This is a spirited story of the disastrous Afghan War that culminated in the destruction of a British army in the Khyber Pass. Mr. Arthur Stanhope has the great misfortune to be political officer at the Court of a very ferocious and treacherous Afghan chief, and the still greater ill luck to attract the roving fancy of one of the said chiefs wives. He behaves with the greatest integrity and courage, and the story of his endurance and his escape makes, in Mr. Greenhow's hands, a really striking narrative.