A Son of Noah. By Mary Anderson. (Digby and Long.)—
This is a tale of the world before the Flood, a theme already treated in verse by James Montgomery and Jean Ingelow (by the latter in a poem of much power, " The Story of Doom "). We cannot affect to think the subject well chosen. When the story of the Bible is decked out with a number of accessories, not a few difficulties present themselves, What, for instance, became of the "daughters of Noah," of whom we hear in the course of this tale P The story is told by one Tirzah, who is wooed by Sham, but loves one of the fighting-men of the giants. Fighting there is of course in abundance ; and a novel touch of terror is added by the appear- ance of the " Maktar," a creature which we are instructed to identify with the Pterodactyl. On the whole, we should say that A Son of Noah is a hard thing fairly well done.
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