8 JULY 1893, Page 25

The Incomplete Adventurer and the Boom in Belltops. By Tighe

Hopkins. (Ward and Downey.)—Guy the " adventurer " is a capital character with his insouciant gaiety, but of the story we cannot make much ; perhaps that is the meaning of the title. We are meant to read it without thinking. The shorter tale is a fairly good story of a speculation in mining-shares. The specu- lator, however, would not have come to much harm but for an extravagant wife, afflicted with that hopeless form of extravagance which consists in a wide conception of necessaries.