18 DECEMBER 1897, Page 23

Bushy ; or, The Adventures of a Girl. By Cynthia

M. Westover. (Chapman and Hall.)—" Bushy," says the author of this volume, "is real, but she is no longer a little girl." The reader certainly may ask for some such assurance, for more marvellous adventures no woman, old or young, ever had. Bushy is taken to the Far West, after a sudden change of purpose, by her father, who is scientific adviser to a mining party. She is then something less than five years old ; the next nine years or so she spends in mining camps among the Rockies. What she does during that time passes telling. She saves everybody's life ; wild beasts, Indians, forces of Nature contend against her in vain. More we will not say, except that Bushy is a really fascinating story.