1 NOVEMBER 1890, Page 45

The White Kangaroo. By E. Davenport Cleland. (Wells Gardner, Darton,

and Co.)—This "tale of Colonial life," "founded on fact," as the title-page tells us, is a very spirited story. Two boys go home to spend the Christmas—i.e., of course, the summer holidays, at a somewhat remote station. They amuse them- selves in various ways,—shooting 'possums, and even teaching the blacks to play at cricket, a game for which, as the per- formances of the Tasmanian eleven prove, they have a certain aptitude. Of course, being boys in a story, they get lost, and, equally of course, fall into the hands of the blacks. Their adventures with these, their escape, and their final rescue, make up an excellent story, which will have the additional attraction of freshness for English readers.