19 NOVEMBER 1898, Page 29

The Great K. and A. Train Robbery. By Paul Leicester

Ford. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a curious story ; and if fiction is indeed a mirror of life, it gives a very strange representation of railway affairs in the United States. Railway companies in this country have animated conflicts, but they are not waged in the fashion hero described. We cannot imagine a director of the Great Western "holding up," or, Ang/ice, robbing, the mail of a train in order to get possession of some registered letters containing proxies which might be used by the Midland to the disadvantage of the Great Western Railway at the meeting of a third line. But this, briefly put, is the plot of the tale before us.