5 DECEMBER 1903, Page 9

In the Grip of the Mullah. By Captain F. S.

Brereton. (Mackie and Son. 5s.)—The hero of these Somaliland adventures is working for his commission at school when the news reaches him of his father having been wrecked off the African coast, and the almost certain information that he is the Mullah's prisoner. How he beards the lion in his den will be just the story to interest boys. There are many hair's-breadth escapes, and young Hubbard, after, managing the affair with extra- ordinary courage and resource, brings both his father and another white prisoner safely away. Nor does he go without his com- mission after all.