Rob the Ranger. By Herbert Strang. (II. Frowde, and Hodder
and Stoughton. 6s.)—Mr. Herbert Strang well knows how to tell a story of adventure, and he is equal to himself in Rob the Ranger. It is always a good thing to have such a story made a side-issue, so to speak, to some important event in history. Here the important event is the struggle of England and France for Canada. Rob and his friend "Lone Pete," and their Mohawk friend, who is Uncas in plain clothes, are on the English side, and have quite their share of hard blows. Then there is a very chivalrous Frenchman, and Mademoiselle his sister, who, seeing that Rob was on such good terms with her brother, cannot make out why he should so obstinately hold the log-but against him. But, as La Claviere explains to the young lady, it was not just then the fashion to surrender to the French ; while it was the fashion, as she finds out for herself, to surrender to the English.
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