3 NOVEMBER 1900, Page 8

Tom Wallis. By Louis Beebe. (R.T.S. 5s.)—This is a sea.

story, but of a kind that a landsman may follow from end to end. Mr. 13ecke is, as our readers probably know, entirely at home in the regions of the Pacific. The whole tribe of beach-combors, traders in "blackbirds," wanderers who pass as shipwrecked men, but who in truth have given the slip to their keepers in New Cale- donia, and other more respectable kinds of sea-going men are well known to him. He can reproduce their language, as far as it is discreet to do so, and can describe their ways of going on, with the same limitation. Altogether this is about as spirited and well constructed a tale of adventure as we have seen for some time.