5 NOVEMBER 1904, Page 8

Mystery /eland. By Fred Whishaw. (J. F. Shaw and Co.

3s. &I.) —Mr. Whishaw is not, we think, as much at home in an island of the Pacific as he is among Russians or Norsemen. There are horrors, enough and to spare, in the island on which Captain Axworthy's Heart's Desire' is wrecked, but they do not seem to take hold of us. These "mysteries," when they are to be made the staple of a really effective story, must be very well managed indeed. Here they are not, it seems to us, cleared up, though all ends well, at least for the heroes of the story.