GOLDEN RAIN. By Owen Rutter. (T. Fisher Unwin.. 75. fid.)—Mr.
Rutter giyes a Spirited account of the rebellion of a 'dispossessed chieftain, Pangeran Jeludin—this. is only half his name—In Borneo about- twenty years ago.' We have here an exciting series of adventures and a sympathetic - portrait of Jeludin. The head-hunting propensities of the inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula and of Borneo are described in great and rather revolting detail, and the book on the whole. is a good specimen of what may be called the Anglo-Indian type of novel. It must be confessed, however, that the heroine, Noreen, is exasperating ; the harm she does by her wilfulness and lawless behaviour is incalculable. In fact, but for her Jeludin might have settled down as a conscientious Government servant under the diplomatic manipulations of Mr. Huntley, the British Resident, who narrates the story. The rflle of villain of the piece is ably filled by Jeludin's wife, Dayang, who, being the niece of a neighbouring Sultan, suffers from the pomposity and arrogance so difficult to avoid by persons of royal birth. In its own way the story makes interesting reading.
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