28 DECEMBER 1895, Page 27

The Hunting of the Auk. By F. Cowper. (Sampson Low

and Co.)—The Carminow Brothers are an interesting trio, and the means by which they find their way to South America are novel and of the sort to excite the boy endowed with an adventurous spirit. Jerry, with his pet craze for discovering the eggs of the great auk in numbers, his innumerable plans and his ingenuity, is a capital specimen of the "ingenious boy" type, and his brothers, Jac't and Roger, are boys of the proper English kind, with plenty of pluck and go. Jerry does not discover any auk's eggs, but he builds up the fortunes of the family by a discovery of more practical value.