Clutterbuck's Treasure. By Fred Whishaw. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—Miser Clutterbuck
left a large amount of money
--£100,000—to become the property of any one of the five heirs he named in his will. One of these, Godfrey Hewetson, who had saved him from being robbed, tells the story of his adven- tures while searching for the money. The plot rather reminds us of " Captain Antifer," by Jules Verne, but, luckily for Hewetson, ends more pleasantly. Another of the heirs—a nephew, by name James Strong—was an unscrupulous ruffian. He has no intention of letting the money go out of the family if he can prevent it. The adventures of Hewetson and a friend, in South Africa and elsewhere, are sufficiently exciting for the most exacting imagination, and will be read with interest by many.
In letterpress and illustrations alike the Century Magazine holds a middle place between the old-fashioned " heavy " maga- zines that still live and flourish on both sides of the Atlantic and the modern cheap, light, and sensational periodicals. The annual volume suggests the mission of the magazine in a very happy way. While the bulk of the stories are of the quiet kind, proving that the spirit of Hawthorne still lingers in American fiction, some of them are bright and full of adventure ; thus nothing could well be better in its way than "By Order of the Admiral." The moat notable of the serials is " The Adventures of Francois," the story of a fencing master and juggler in the days of the French Revolution, by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, which was recently reviewed in our columns. The travel papers, such as " Toledo, the Imperial City of Spain," are excellent and admirably illustrated. " An American School of Dramatic Art," " The Spanish Armada," " Confederate Commerce Destroyers," " Spain and her American Colonies," and " Ten Years of Kaiser Wilhelm," indicate the almost encyclopaedic variety of the subjects treated of in this volume. It would be difficult to find a book of this kind which is better calculated to please all members of a family circle, and not merely the boys and girls.
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