3 DECEMBER 1910, Page 68

The Adventures of Phyllis. By Bessie Merchant. (Cassell and Co.

53.)—These are "adventures" indeed. Phyllis is the daughter of an English merchant in the Argentine who loses his money in speculation. She determines to earn her own living, advertises for and obtains a situation as nursery governess, and, by a series of strange mistakes, finds herself landed in the cabin where live two highwaymen, the old hag their mother, and a wounded man, whose nurse she becomes. That is a promising beginning, and the promise is amply frdfilled. It is a very brisk, even exciting, story, and the novelty of the surroundings gives it an additional attraction.