Stanley Grahame. By Gordon Stables, M.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Some of
Dr. Stables's accessories stagger us a little. What were smugglers doing on an inland moor in Aberdeenshire, except it were to make our blood curdle when the hero is hiding with only a wooden partition between him and them, and they cry, after the melodramatic fashion of smugglers, "Off with him to the deepest spot in Murdoch's Pool " ? And what, again, was the inland sea, haunted by savage Indians, which could be reached by a few hours' journey from a Virginian plantation ? Who were these Indians, that haunted the Old Dominion after the Civil War That it was after, we know, because we read that the people of New York had "fought and bled for the abolition of slavery." But all this being taken for granted, Stanley Grahame is a very lively story. It contains tre- mendous adventures by land and sea, while a comic element is provided by Mr. Midshipman Mite and an irrepressible "Boy Green," whom not even a lion's mouth can dispose of.
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