7 FEBRUARY 1914, Page 27

Winds of God. By Hamilton Drummond. (Stanley Paul and Co.

6s.)—Mr. Hamilton Drummond imparts a novelty into his story of treasure-hunting by assigning the principal character to a woman. Otherwise, although the book is well constructed, there is nothing original about it. Indeed, it ie too late to be original about treasure-hunting in the South Seas, even though the date of a story may be the eighteenth century. Everything has been said that could ho said about buried hoards, lost galleons, and mutinies on board ship, and the reader will heartily sympathize with the opinion of the hero that the heroine's dead father should never have imposed such a task upon his young daughter.