A Day with Hounds. By " Covertside." (Western Mail Office.)
—It would be difficult to find a more misleading title for a story of pre Restoration days than A Day with Hounds. The tale .opens with a hunting day, and this provides a convenient oppor- tunity for introducing the characters to the reader. The rest of the book relates the adventures of the hero, a Sir Charles Norwood, who is much concerned with General Monk in the Restoration. One Richard Gamble, the villain, is a thorough- ,paced specimen of the type, and is nephew to the old knight, who meets death at the hands of a deer-stealer. The author :knows his history fairly well, and has something to say about the .state of affairs at the time when Monk and Lambert represented different parties. There is plenty of incident, indeed so much so that the thread of narrative is a little too weak to preserve a clear view of the plot. But the interest is well sustained and it is a .distinctly readable tale.
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