When the World was Young. By Lafayette McLaws, (Con- stable
and Co. es.)—The story opens with a striking scene. Colonel Huguenin and Captain Middleton (who tells the story) are bound to the stake, to be tortured to death by the Red Indians. Captain Middleton throws himself into the river and escapes. The action is not kept up to this pitch of animation. In fact, it grows a little too solemn in style. But the author gives us plenty of harrowing situations. What with Indians, Spaniards, and buccaneers, the hero and his friends have a lively time. The illustrations are good, but the artist has made so handsome a young man out cf Mademoiselle Antoinette Huguenin that we are not a little disappointed when we see her in feminine array.—With Redskins on the War-Path, by S. Walkey (Cassell and Co., 3s. 6d.), is a story of the great struggle for the New World that was fought out between France and England, and culminates when Marquette and Deerfoot, marked as Chief of the Five Nations by possession of the white tomahawk, meet and the Chief declares for the English. Mr. Walkey should be a little more careful of his English. Woods can hardly be said to " palpitate " with the "springy tread" of Indian braves. " It was apparent that he had dined" is an ambiguous phrase to use of a great soldier, whose name we need not mention. Of course, our author means nothing sinister, but, as we have said, he should be careful.
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