A BOUNTY BOY.t
THE " Bounty Boy " is Christmas Bounty Adams, born some fifty years ago on Norfolk Island, to which place, it will be remembered, when it ceased to be a convict settlement, the superfluous population of Pitcairn Island was transferred. Young Adams is visited with a desire to see the world, and he takes service with an American whaler as a harpooner, an occupation which he has followed from his childhood, and which fits him, as we at once see, to be one of Mr•. Bullen's heroes. He shows his skill by an exhibition of marksmanship, and earns the hatred of the Portuguese who was at the time harpooner-in-chief to the expedition. Mr. Bullen, it is clear•, does not like the "Portagee," though he tries to do justice to him. The " Bounty Boy," as may be supposed, does not lack adventures. There is plenty of whaling, and that Mr•. Bullen never fails to make exciting, for•, indeed, his pen seems never to be more happily employed. Then there are perils inside the ship as well as outside it, for Pepe and his fellow " Portagees" are not easily disposed of; and other things which are likely to try the temper of " a Christian barbarian on an unpre- meditated trip round the world," as the sub-title of the story has it. Naturally love is one of these things, and the " Bounty Boy's" experience of it is novel. He is, of course, as handsome as a demigod, and the daughter of an American millionaire falls in love with him. This kind of young. lady is, we know, perfectly qualified to take up the part of a Duchess, and we do not doubt that Mr. Millen is right in representing her as equal to the duties of a matron in Norfolk Island, where, it seems, money is of no use. As it opportunely * The Wonderful Invention. By M. H. Cornwall Legh. London : B.T.B. [3s. 6d.].
t A Bounty Boy. By Prank T. Bullen. London : Marshall Brothers. [5e.] happens that the millionaire loses all his dollars, there is nothing to hinder the young couple from living happily ever after.
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