Fergus McTavish. By J. Macdonald Oxley. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This "
Story of the Far North-West is a very interesting thing of its kind, written, it is evident, by one who knows something of the North-West (of Canada, it must be understood), in the days before it became the resort of emigrants, when, in fact, almost the only White men to be seen in it were the clerks and agents of the Hudson's Bay Company. The hero is the son of one of these officials ; the story of his childhood, boy- hood, and youth, his qualities good and bad, his exploits and his dangers, is told with much graphic effect. The touches, in fact, are so lifelike and telling, that we cannot help thinking that the portrait is drawn from life. The end of Fergus's career—perhaps we should rather say the beginning—is that he becomes a mis- sionary to the Indian tribes. The example of a devoted labourer in this field so works upon him, that not a little to the surprise, not to say the annoyance, of his father, he gives up everything to follow it.
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