29 APRIL 1893, Page 14

Fairway Island. By Horace Hutchinson. (Cassell and Co.)— This is

an exciting story, of the kind which we are accustomed to associate with the names of Mr. Rider Haggard and Mr. Quiller Couch. The scone is laid in a place which we may describe as the Scilly Islands with a difference, and the action consists of a good deal of fighting and some love-making. Mr. Hutchinson contrives to invest both with no little interest. The style is not altogether a success. It has a certain flavour of the early part of the last century. But now and then we have a jarring phrase, as, e.g., " Tho Squire had taken food and stimulants." " Stimulants " is a very modern word.