The Lost Earl of Man. By Mrs. Campbell Praed. (Chatto-
and Windus. 6s.)—This' is primarily a story of the Australian_ bush, though a very exciting shipwreck, in which the hero- and heroine are rescued, occurs in the middle of it. English. readers will be most interested in those scenes which are laid in.- the bush station, as local colour given by such an authority as Mrs. Campbell Praed is always welcome to dwellers in " the Old. Country." The sidelights cast on the Polynesian pearl fisheries are also well worth noticing, most of the dramatis personae' finding themselves towards the end of the story gathered_ together in the station which is the headquarters of this trade- The book is good reading, though the story proper is not. particularly remarkable ; but true descriptions of Australian life- never pall on people who are obliged from press of business to view the outlying parts of the Empire through books, and not • with their own eyes.
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