14 DECEMBER 1895, Page 23

Captain Antifer. By Jules Verne. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Once

more, but probably not for the last time, we have the ever-fascinating subject of a treasure, hidden, and sought for by rival claimants, made the subject of a story. " Monte Christo," " The Gold-Bug," " Treasure Island," are only a few of the suc- cesses which have had their origin here. Possibly we are allowed to see too clearly at the beginning of this tale what is going to happen. There is a hint about the island in which the Pasha deposits his four millions, that reveals the end to the sagacious observer. Apart from this, M. Verne has given us in Captain Antifer an entertaining story, worked up with that verisimilitude of detail which is one of the chief attractions of his work.