3 DECEMBER 1910, Page 67

The Opium Smug glers. By Harold Bindloss. (T. Fisher Unvrin.

6s.)—The young hero loses his place with a milling company at Minneapolis, takes up another of the same kind at Winnipeg, and then resolves to change the desk for the field, and receiving encouragement from an old family friend, makes his way to Puget Sound. He has made up his mind to be a rancher, and here we have the story, told with much vigour, of how his ambition prospered. The carrying out of his purpose is complicated, as the title of the book indicates, by other things. This smuggling is a lively business, and Mr. Bindloss makes a good story of it