The Amateur Emigrants. By Thomas Cobb. (Alston Rivers. 6s.)—Mr. Cobb
has lately ceased to write with conviction, and the reader cannot help feeling that the entertaining scheme of his new novel is therefore rather wasted. His "amateur emigrants" try the plan advocated by certain earnest social reformers, and pretend that England is one of the Colonies, and that the same natural conditions are to be fought here as would be the case on the arrival of settlers in a new country. Naturally, no one but the leader of this expedition believes in the game, or plays it with any approach to seriousness, and the complications which result may easily be devised by the ingenious reader. The book is moro than a little thin, but it is written in a cheerful, almost jaunty style which might dissipate the sense of ago produced in a reader of the previous noveL
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