New York to Brest in Seven Hours, By Andro Laurie.
(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is one of the semi-scientific extravaganzas for which our neighbours on the other side of the Channel have a patent. This marvellous seven-hours passage of the Atlantic is made in a tube which conveys petroleum from shore lo shore. The details of its construction are given in that plausible way which a not very exacting reader may accept. Still, oil rushing at the rate of about three hundred and fifty miles an hour makes a great demand upon our faith, even when it has been stretched by a long course of " gift-book " fiction. When the hero himself travels by his tube in order to forbid an unwelcome marriage, we rebel. But whether we trust M. Laurie's very large postulate or not, wo can read his story with enjoyment.
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