Tomalyn's Quest. By G. B. Burgin. (A. D. limes and
Co.)— Mr. Burgin can produce a very agreeable story, and one full of genuinely good fun—when he is not striving too anxiously and assiduously to rival the Professors of the New Humour. Here he takes a very susceptible young man, Tomalyn Crane by name, to Constantinople, subjects him to the Cleopatresque fascinations of a Mrs. Brangwyn, and makes him the tool of a diabolic Russian named Gorchoff, who has an even more diabolic ally, an Armenian of the name of Kourrian. Fortunately Tomalyn has a good angel with a very plain face in the person of Miss Ulver- stone, who finally saves him from Mrs. Brangwyn. And Gorchoff and Kourrian fall out, with the result that the Russian is murdered by the Armenian, to be in turn shot by Crane, whom ho has tried to poison, and who, although in a high fever, can still use a revolver. The transference of Mrs. Brangwyn's skin to Miss Ulverstone is, perhaps, an incredible incident to occur even in Constantinople. Taken altogether, however, Tomalyn's Quest is full of movement and of interest of various kinds and is very enjoyable. Mr. Burgin does not bore his readers by attempting to solve the Eastern question.
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