Trent's Trust. By Bret Harte. (Eveleigh Nash. 6s.)—These stories are
all characteristic of their author; in one of them at least there is almost a repetition of earlier work. Concha, "the Pupil of Chestnut Ridge," a Mexican young woman posing as a child, is not unlike a damsel of Anglo-Saxon race—the name we forget—who plagues a susceptible schoolmaster somewhere in the South-West. "Dick Boyle's Business Card" is, to our mind, the best of the seven ; it is a really fine story of the perils of life in regions where the Indian is still formidable. " The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin" is very humorous. The parson, who learns poker under Jack's instruction, and playing for the first time—for beans, let it be understood—rakes in the whole pile with the "stoniest, deadest, neatest bluff " that ever was seen, is a very funny figure.
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