28 DECEMBER 1889, Page 24

The Mids of the ` Rattlesnake.' By Arthur Lee Knight.

(Ward, Lock, and Co.)—We wish that all writers of these tales would follow the precept given lately by one of their number, and plunge —we quote the exact phrase used—in mediis rebus. It would-have been better to take the " mids " at once to the scene of their very exciting adventure with the Dyak head-hunters, and pass over their doings at the Cape. The "pirate" part of the story is very good. The principal tale is followed by a shorter story of an adventure in Fiji,—the Fiji, it must be understood, of the old cannibal days, not the very humane and enlightened age which has now succeeded to them.