Planter Jack. By G. Manville Fenn. (8.P.C.K.)—This is a, spirited
story of planter life in Ceylon in the days before the island had been as much settled as it is now, and the improve- ments of roads, &c., had only begun. To Mr. Grantley, who has made a coffee plantation out of the jungle, and his son Jack, who is the hero of the tale, there comes out a certain Henry Francis, an ill-conditioned fellow, who gives them and every one else with whom he has to do, a vast amount of trouble. There are scenes of travel and of hunting, hurricanes and other incidents of life in the tropics, and some very fine descriptions of tropical scenery. Then there is a mystery connected with a Buddhist temple, and a robbery. Altogether, Mr. Manville Fenn gives us, as is his wont, an exciting, well-constructed story, with plenty of the local colour which he seems able to supply wherever the scene of his narratives may be laid.
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