The Turkish Automaton. By Sheila E. Braine. (Blackie and Son.)—Miss
Braine bespeaks the reader's favour by an admirable little preface. She tells us where she has found the facts that she has worked up in her story, and goes on : "What the writer eould not find out she has conscientiously invented." A certain Pole is desperately wounded at the battle of Riga, and cured by a benevolent doctor. How is he to be got out of the country ? Here, then, comes in the automaton, for which, if we may so far reveal Miss Braine's plot, the hero is made a suitable inmate by having both of his legs amputated. The interest of the tale comes, indeed, after this. We will not say more than to recom- mend it very strongly to our readers, except by saying that we have an agreeable surprise towards the end by having some good said of a Russian, and of a very bad one at that, if the Americanism may be permitted.
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