28 DECEMBER 1901, Page 23

The Wilderness Road. By Joseph Altsheler. (Lawrence and Bullen. 6s.)—The

Wilderness Road is an exceptionally interesting novel of American history. Described on the title-page as "a Romance : St. (lair's Defeat and Wayne's Victory," it is further dated by an announcement in the second chapter that "Kentucky was to become a State in the following year." War between West and East, that is to say, between the red man and the white, is the principal business of the story. But a romance of love is intimately woven into the web of strife, and the threads of both developments are to be followed much more easily than in the common run of novels of the sort.