The Eyes of Light. By Arthur Moore. (I. W. Arrowsmith,
Bristol. Gs.)—This book is full of fantastic and amusing inci- dents and characters. The events, which take place first in a remote corner of France_ and then in England, are the conse- quences of the dealings of Mr. Murray, one of the heroes of the Indian Mutiny, with a certain Rajah. All the people in the story are striving for the possession of a certain ivory casket, and all for different reasons. Mr. Murray's daughter Cynthia has in a romantic moment written love-letters to an imaginary lover, and confided them to a secret drawer in the casket. Then Mr. Muiray and the casket vanish, a real lover appears, and absurd complications ensue connected with the old Rajah's son and a lady with blue eyes and copper-coloured hair, who sometimes figures as his daughter, and sometimes as the defrauded heiress of a Ceylontan (so she says) tea-planter.
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