The Archipelago on Fire. By Jules Verne. (Sampson Low and
Co.)—The good hero of this story is a Frenohman and phil.Hellene, Captain d'Albaret ; the villain, a certain Nicholas Starkos, a native of the Morea, who has busied himself with the villainous trade of selling into slavery his countrymen and countrywomen taken prisoners by the Turks. These two are rivals for the hand of Hadjine Elizando, daughter of a Corfiote banker, who has made his fortune oat of Starkos's evil practices. A very exciting story M. Verne makes out of this subject. He is perfectly at home in the history of the War of Greek Independence, and is as familiar with the geography of the country down to its minutest details as he is with those of the Poles, or, for the matter of that, of the centre of the earth. Captain D'Albaret follows the pirate and slave.dealer Starkos over the Archipelago, has an exciting contest with him at a slave-auction, and finally settles accounts with him in a terrific con- flict, which ought to bring down any house to which it is played.
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