A Trooper of the Finns. By Tom Bevan. (R.T.S. Is.
6d.)— This "Tale of the Thirty Years' War" is throughout the spirited narrative which we should expect from its author. One thing is not altogether to our liking, though we are not unaware of the difficulties which surround the matter. Would it not be well to keep the element of religious controversy as much as possible out of such pages ? Here is an example :—" Riding too near the castle of a Brandenburg nobleman of Romanist opinions and in the ray of Austria, they were nearly cut off by a band of robbers." The words which we have italicised might have been left out with advantage. And the tale could have been made interesting enough without the villainous Father Clement and Brother Simon. Mr. Tom Bevan does not need such help when he sets his mind to tell a rousing story.
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