Roger the Ranger. By Eliza F. Pollard. (S. W. Partridge
and Co.)—This is, in every sense, an excellent story of border life among the Indians during that struggle between the British and the French for the sovereignty of Canada, that culminated, although it did not altogether end, in the decisive struggle on the Plains of Abraham, which cost both sides their heroes. The story further admirably illustrates, in the widely different careers of Charles Langdale and Roger the Banger, the breaking- up of domestic friendships which that struggle involved. There is plenty of stirring incident in this story, and the needful elements of pathos and love-making are contributed by Charles Langdale's Indian wife and child on the one hand, and by the courtship of Roger the Ranger and Lars Langdale on the other. But there is absolutely nothing strained or ultra-sensational in this book ; it is marked equally by historical and by literary sin- cerity. It is one of the least pretentious and yet most successful and enjoyable of modern historical romances.
Previous page
