The Tyrants of Kool Sim. By James Maclaren Cobban. (H.
Henry and Co.)—No reader can possibly complain of want of variety and excitement in this tale. We are taken quite beyond the bounds of ordinary adventure. Captain Betterton and Miss Malleson, with Miss Malleson's duenna, and the two lads, Walter Firebrace and Will Malleson, go out to search for a certain "Uncle Tom," familiar, we think, to Mr. Cobba.n's readers. The starting of the expedition to which the boys contrive to get themselves attached is distinctly amusing. Then comes a series of romantic adventures. The party find themselves among the dwarfs of the forests that lie beyond the Atlas range. The object of their search is discovered in a most unexpected situation, and associates his friends in a most unexpected undertaking. It would be unfair to the author to go more into detail. It must suffice to say that this book of marvels is told with the plausibility of common-sense.
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