Black Gull Rock. By Morice Gerard. (Nelson and Sons.)—This is
a story of the evil days when some of the dwellers on the Cornish coast were wreckers. Annie Tresidder is taken, sorely against her will, to the house of her uncle Trehane, and Trebane has two trades, of which the least iniquitous is that of smuggling. How she bears herself, and how she does her duty in a most perilous crisis, is told very well in Black Gull Rock.—The Quest of the Golden Pearl. By J. R. Hutchinson. (Ward and Downey.) —Two comrades, Jack and Don, make a bid for a parcel of Oysters, and find in them a treasure, of which a specially valuable pearl, called golden, is the most precious item. This treasure is missed, and a very spirited story of how the owners seek to recover it follows. A reader who complains of lack of startling incident after studying the " Quest " must be indeed hard to please.
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