A Hero of the Highlands. By E. Everett-Green. (T. Nelson
and Sons. 5s.)—Miss Everett-Green's literary output is not a little surprising. Here is a volume of about a hundred and ten thousand words, a task to which a good portion of a year might well be given, and it is only one out of several volumes. This can hardly go on without loss of quality. The " Hero of the Highlands" is an English Jacobite who throws in his lot with Prince Charles Edward. He is an enthusiastic believer in the cause, but he does not fail to give the unfavourable answers which some of his countrymen of the same way of thinking gave when asked to draw the sword for a Stuart. England's eighty-odd years of experience of the race did not promote enthusiasm. The story is, of course, an easy one to write. Materials are abundant; there is a picturesque element in the affair from beginning to end. The coming, the campaign, and the escape are the three acts of a drama which it would be hard to match elsewhere. Miss Everett- Green knows how to deal with a subject of this kind.
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