2 JANUARY 1892, Page 35

Redskin and Cowboy. By G. A. Henty. (Blackie and Son.)—

Mr. Henty has left history for contemporary adventure. Here is a story in which a " claimant " figures (making out his case far more easily than could have been imagined, we must say), but which is chiefly occupied by the stirring experiences of a young lad who goes out to the West (the South-West of the United States, it must be understood), and takes his life in his hand among white desperadoes, Indians, and many a danger by field

and flood. Mr. Henty, who vouches for his incidents as being paralleled by facts, makes a very good book out of his subject.