Lost in Africa. By Frederick Horatio Winder. (Sampson Low and
Co.)—This is a story of a well-approved kind. The hero is robbed of his patrimonial estate by a villainous claimant, and goes
to South Africa in company with a sturdy sea-captain, and a comic but courageous doctor in search of the will which is to establish him in his rights. It is a long time before he gets there. We are half through the book without getting further than Cape Town. And, indeed, he meets with such perilous adventures on the way— being left, for instance, in the rigging of a pirate ship—that we begin to doubt whether he will ever reach his destination. But we know that heroes are never finally lost, and our confidence is not misplaced. But why, we may ask, was it necessary to have killed poor Tim ? Surely when he fell off the rigging of the pirate's schooner he had exhausted the possibilities of death.
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