6 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 9

Scarlet Feather. By Henry J. Barker. (Griffith, Farran, Browne, and

Co.)—This "story of adventure among the Indiana of Arizona" is of the usual typo. It has the merit of going to the point at once. Blake Middleton goes out to see his brother and sister who are living at some mining works in Arizona, and on his way he hears that the place has been raided by Indians. He vows to help them, and the story tells us how the vow was fulfilled. All the "properties" of the drama have a somewhat conventional look, from the Yankee (who, by the way, is wrongly called) whom he first encounters down to the friendly Indians, descended from the Aztecs, whom he enlists as allies. But the action moves briskly on, and the tale will be found sufficiently readable.