3 DECEMBER 1898, Page 28

The Bonded Three. By Bessie Marchant. (Blackie and Son.) —Those

boys and girls who delight in tales of adventure will indeed be hard to please if they do not enjoy this story, which relates the experiences of three English children during a revolt on their father's tea-plantation. The characters are all well drawn,—Rosamond, the tomboy, particularly so. The excite- ment begins at the opening of the narrative, and the agony is piled up—but in a reasonable manner, involving no violation of probability—until the end, when the male and female villains are devoured together by a couple of judicious tigers. The only defect we have noticed in the book is its English, which is some- times curiously slipshod.