2 JANUARY 1897, Page 35

The Great White Queen. By Victor Le Queux. (F. V.

White . and Co.)—Who would have thought, as he strolled through the streets of Eastbourne some ten years or so ago, that that town contained so very strange and romantic a personage as Prince Durar, son of the Great White Queen of Mo ! He was somewhat darker in colour than the boys who fill the many schools of Eastbourne ; he was a pagan also, and had other peculiarities ; but the lad who had the good sense or the good fortune to strike up a friendship with him found his reward, if to run a thousand excellent chances of being killed is a reward. Let boys read this story with its grim details and carry away at least this moral, "Be kind to a black echool- fellow."