The Flood of Fortune. By "Old Boomerang." (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This
book is written in a style that makes one think that there is a good deal of leisure on the other side of the world. It is in an eminently leisurely way that "Old Boomerang" tells his story, digresses, moralises,—in short, does what seems good in hie eyes. He deals with the fortunes of a certain family, Mr. and Mrs. Summers and their five children, Mr. Slimmers has a farm on the Hawkesbury River, and the story opens with the great flood of 1861. It does not look like the flood that leads to fortune; but so it is. The children go out to seek their fortune, and find it, more or less ; in fact, the disaster is a blessing in disguise, for it routs people who were too contented, out of a groove of which they might otherwise never have got clear. The story enforces some excellent morals ; but would it not be well if Ned, when he became rich, had sent back the value of the silver spoons which he threw overboard by mistake ? We ought not to forgot to mention a good account of South-Sea whaling.
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