The Fortune of the Quittentuns. By R. D. Chetwode. (Biggs
and Debenham.)—The idea of a buccaneer's treasure, which has to be discovered by means of a cryptograph, is one that has been used many times since Edgar Poe wrote his "Gold Bug." Mr. Chetwode has worked it out into a tale that has a certain novelty of circumstances about it. The scene is laid in South America, and the hero, his father, who joins him in the adventure of the search, and the faithful Indian Oononi, go through some very strange experiences. They have all of them, it would seem, as many lives as a cat; and so, in spite of Indians of a peculiarly savage temper, and natural obstacles of the most alarming kind, they succeed in finding what they are looking for. This is a spirited tale, but some of the horror might have been retrenched. It is no use to tell the reader that if he objects he may go on to the next chapter. There are readers who are positively harmed by these things, and who ought not to have them put in their way.
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