IN SEARCH OF EL DORADO.
In Search of El _Dorado. By Alexander Macdonald. (T. Fishes Unwin. 10s. (3c1.)—" These are true romances," testifies Admiral Moresby in his introduction to this volume, "no fiction with the Deus ex machintl at the psychological moment, but unadorned risks, escapes, and adventures," and "little epics of comradeship —impressions of men to whom gold and jewels are much, but to whom loyalty is the one thing better." Mr. Macdonald also testifies personally to the scenes which he describes and tho events which he narrates as being "faithful representations from life." Many of his adventures in the Klondike "Frozen North" region, "under the Southern Cross," and in the Australian " back-blocks " are certainly of the most astonishing kind,—the story specially named "El Dorado" is a notable instance. Some of his companions, too, especially Stewart and Mac, remind us not a little of the remarkable personalities immortalised by Mr. Rudyard Kipling. But Mr. Macdonald is full of camaraderie, high spirits, and the most genuine love of adventure. No book of the kind we have come across for long so decidedly merits reading,—the schoolboy "reading straight on."
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