Strong - Hand Saxon. By Christopher Beck. (C. Arthur Pearson. 2s. 6d.)—There
is something very rousing about this story of the adventures of Tom Holt in company with the redoubtable scout "Strong-Hand Saxon." We almost hold our breath as wo follow the adventurous pair, and see them emerge from one tight corner to get into another. Of course, it may be said, we are asked to believe too much. Everything could not have happened so nicely in time in real life. But what would you have ? The heroes must survive, and to survive they must always have the better of the fight. And the fight, we may say, is always admirably described. About the best of these pictures is that of the struggle between Jake and the scout in the weird surroundings of the desperadoes' mountain stronghold. It is terrible without being horrible. The actual scouting is not, perhaps, as good as it might be. Are there rattle- snakes on the British side of the Border ? The illustrator, we see, makes it a brown bear that is pursuing Glanville up a tree; lathe text it is a grizzly. This is interesting because the grizzly is the slowea climber among the bears.
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