Foray and Fight,' by John Finnemore (W. and R. Chambers,
3s. 6d.), is "the story of the remarkable adventures of an English- man and an American in Macedonia." Young people, happily for themselves, can relish stronger fare than suits older palates. We should have said that there is too much of the " unspeakable Turk" in this story. That, however, is a matter of taste. Any- how, there is plenty of fighting, hair's-breadth escapes, and so forth, and the right people come out at last uppermost, a result which is probably less true to life than it should be in Macedonia. Kidnapped by Pirates. By S. Walkey. (F. Warne and Co. 3s. 6d.) —In this story it is not Turks but pirates that we have to do with, and the scene is carried back some couple of centuries. It is not less full of horrors, but they do not touch us as much, for all is remote. When it is Macedonia that we see, it is almost a case of Medea slaying her children on the stage.—Wild Life in Sunny Lands. By Gordon Stables, M.D. (R.T.S. 3s. 6d.)—Dr. Stables has all the skill of an old hand in mixing the ingredients of the comic and the terrible. A convict who has been wrongly convicted, and who has got a treasure somewhere ; a private detec- tive, who, however, has "nothing of the Sherlock Holmes about him "; " Chips the Carpenter"; "Bramble " and " Bramley," who are brother and sister ; "Old Peggy," a comic nurse, these are some of the dramatis personae, and Dr. Stables makes them move about briskly. It is really superfluous to praise an'old favourite who never forgets to instruct and never fails to amuse.
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