Twycross's Redemption, by Alfred St. Johnston (Arrowirmith, Bristol), is very
correctly described by its author as "a story of wild adventure." Certainly, the experiences of its leading characters in the interior of Ceylon are almost on a par, as regards their extra- ordinary character, with any told by some of our most sensational romancists. Thus, there is a fight on a precipice between a powerful African and a scarcely less powerful Indian that is not unworthy of Mr. Rider Haggard himself. The central idea of Twycross's Redemp- tion is, to say the least of it, a daring one,—the assumption by 011Yee
Mama of the dress of a young man with a view to influencing for good Arthur Twycross, a lad who is in danger of going permanently "wrong" through the contagion of bad companions. At the same time, she drifts into a love-affair with another young man, and, after her hairbreadth escapes are over, marries him. Olive's adventures are all skilfully and delicately managed ; yet Mr. Bt. Johnston's experiment is a rather perilous one.
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