19 OCTOBER 1895, Page 26

The Path in the Ravine. By Edward S. Ellis. (Cassell

and Co.) —No one can complain that the adventures of the two West Point young officers who go out one morning to explore a certain ravine near the frontier-station where they are on duty are wanting in excitement. The artist has shown us one of them clinging to a grizzly-bear, while he and it are carried along by a mountain flood ; and this, we can assure the intending reader, is not the most thrilling experience which he and his comrade went through. A bear, even of the fierce grizzly kind, is not so dangerous as a Wild-Cat, when the cat is a Blackfoot Indian. Mr. Ellis's story is a good one.