Brave Hearts. By Robertson Gray. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is
a story, told with much spirit, of the life which men lead in the wild regions of Western America. The steno is laid a few years back, before the Pacific Railroad had come intdbeing, and one of the drivers of the great stage-coaches of the main routes, now past away, is a prominent character. A swindler of the most desperate kind ; Philip Russell, a young barrister from the East, who goes to the Pacific coast as cor- respondent for a newspaper; Andy Campbell, a broken-down refugee from civilisation, with his bright, fearless daughter, are others of the dramatis personce, who act between them a very interesting piece of love and adventure. Nothing could be better told in its way than the "ad- venture" where Philip and his ally, Stephen, stage-driver, scholar, and not a few other things besides, narrowly escape destruction from a runaway team of mules that comes sweeping down the " grade " upon the coach. Stephen, the driver, is a character that we here, in sober England, who for the most keep in the same groove into which we have once got, can hardly understand, but his countrymen will doubtless recognise him.
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