The Protector. By Harold Bindloss. (Ward, Look and Co. Se.)'
—Mr. Bindloss is always great in the scenery of his novels. This' time Wallace Vane, the hero, is a prospector, who after long years of weary failure makes a lucky hit. The scene, we should say, is laid in Western Canada. All the surroundings and circumetancen of his life are portrayed with no small vigour. And the man himself is real, a quite natural combination of impulse and com- mon sense, always ready in the face of danger, but very apt to• fail in the presence of social difficulties. And the qualities a this Telemachus are well sot off by his Mentor, Carroll. Tho adventures of the two by flood and field are given with no little dramatic force. We are not so much impressed with the figure• of the heroine, Evelyn. Surely, to make one criticism on her story, so cool and steady a person should not have been taken in by thee foolish story with which the spiteful Jessie Hortfield turns her mind against Vane. But, as a whole, this is a story to be recom- mended without reserve.
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