author claims for his story that it is "a true
one, and that, whether it is believed or not, it has the merit of being a simple transcript of events which were written large in his life." He
adds that " he is no doubt making a groat demand upon the faith of his readers." True or not, it is certainly a very marvellous story, and although some of the coincidences would be very skilful fiction,
they do not do violence to the experience of the strangeness of truth.
The style of telling is worthy of the tale ; the author disclaims literary skill, and protests, we think, too much ; while the reader will not uufrequently find his attention arrested by passing remarks as ho is being hurried along in the excitement of the story. It is told in one hundred and eighty short pages. if taken up, it will hardly be laid down till it is finished, and the pathos of one character will alone insure its not being easily forgotten.
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