Fort Frayne. By Captain C. King, U.S.A. (Ward and Lock.)
1--Captain King evidently knows Indian warfare, for he has given us a wonderfully vivid and picturesque description of the alarms and hardships of a battalion stationed in some outlying fort with wayward and unruly Indians to watch and protect. There is romance and tragedy_ in the lives of the officers, but it is not allowed to interfere with the author's description of the sudden
winter campaigns and trying nature of a commandant's duties with the restless and fiery Sioux, always to be guarded against, always to be kept within their reservation, and often to be pro- tected against the white man himself. It is certainly a spirited picture of frontier life, with some fine characters among the soldiers, and with some powerful and pathetic touches in it. The quarrel between the cowboys and the Indians, the great efforts of the troops to get between the combatants, and their midnight skirmish with the braves, and return home with the village, is a most vigorous piece of campaigning. This is a book to be read by boys of all ages.
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