Not Wanted. By Eliza F. Pollard. (Partridge.; —This is a
good story of an old-fashioned kind. A bad man tries to get rid of the heir to a property, and, to accomplish this end, utilises various people, including a good man who is a sea-captain. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that, in the development of the plot, a number of stirring events take place, including a shipwreck and adventures on an island of the Juan Fernandez type. All ends well. The bad man is foiled, and shoots himself ; the heir, who has to all appearance been spirited away, turns up with a new name ; and the deserving young people are happily married. Captain Fortescue is an excellent sketch of a sailor of the more refined—though not superfine—sort ; while there is more character in his daughter Hope, and in Guy the lost heir, than is usually to be found in young " engaged" people.
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