4 JANUARY 1890, Page 33

Daddy Jake, the Runaway, and other Stories. By Joel Chandler

Harris. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is a handsome volume, but then the contents are not of the average gift-book sort. The principal story is admirable. " Daddy Jake" is a Negro coach- man who, roused beyond endurance, strikes a brutal overseer, and terrified by what he has done, flies to the woods. The master's little children set off in search of him, taking a boat and journeying in the happiest confidence down the river. How they fare, and how they find the fugitive, is told in a delightful way, and we have interpolated one of " Uncle Remus's " most characteristic little stories of " Brer Rabbit and Brer Coon." The other tales are of this latter kind.