The Dark o' the Moon : being Certain Further Histories
of the Folk called "Raiders." By S. R. Crockett. (Macmillan and Co. Ss.)—Mr. Crockett's admirers will find plenty of his characteristic matter and manner to mystify and amuse them in The Dark o' the Moon. A gentlemanlike heroine and a ladylike hero play a complicated game of cross-purposes with a "proper man" and another woman who is all womanly. The scene is Galloway, the situation is raiders in rebellion and King George's soldiery to put them down. The most humanly interesting and intelligible relation is that of Austin Tredennis to Marion of the Isle, and the best scene in the book is that in which the girl's gallant show of manhood—as the captain of the insurgent Levellers—breaks down when the King's officer visits her in prison and betrays in a perfectly gentlemanly, but overpoweringly male manner that he sees through her disguise.
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