Captured by Cannibals. By Joseph Hatton. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—In this
romance Mr. flatten has interwoven descrip- tion, scenical and narrative, and much detail from the career of his son, the late Prank Hatton, who met with an accidental death whilst exploring in Borneo. The hero, driven from his uncle's house, sails as an ordinary seaman on a trading vessel. The vessel is wrecked in the neighbourhood of the Bulonagan Islands, and Horace Durand falls into the hands of cannibals ; but owing to the intervention of the "King of the Cannibal Islands," a shipwrecked Irishman, escapes roasting. The plot itself is not exciting, the interest of the story depending mainly on various events not neces- sarily relating to cannibals, and descriptions of scenery which are as true as they are gorgeous. There is some very pleasant reading in the volume, notably the idyl of the" Mermaid" pearl; and the reader, though he must expect no thrilling adventures, will enjoy the story and Mr. Hatton's manner of telling it.
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