THE CONQUEROR'S STONE. By Berry Fleming. (Henn. 7s. 6d.)—This first
novel by a young American writer is a rollicking tale of piracy and adventure in eighteenth-century Carolina. Nicholas Waine, the son of an English emigrant, is sent to the home country to school, from which he runs away to sea. He turns up years later in Carolina as first mate of a pirate ship, laden with treasure, which he and Captain Quin hope to share between themselves by murdering the crew. But one of the crew escapes, and Quin turns against Nicholas, whose hitherto relentless villainy is softened by the loving, but eventually unavailing, sacrifice of his cousin Anne. The plot is fresh ; there is plenty of well-restrained colour, humour, and excitement ; and the character of Nicholas is admirably realized and sustained. Here is a new writer of "thrillers who promises also to be an artist.'
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