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"THE LONG CHANCE." THE publishers announce The Long Chance as "a story fresh from the heart of the desert, with all the tang of the West to it." We somehow cannot get hold of the tang to it, and had we rested there we should not have gone on to read the vigorous romance of Mr. P. B. Kyne, which Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton publish at seven shillings. I' If we had done so, we should have missed real pleasure, for the book has no Americanisms that clog the reader's joy, I and is a tale that grips and holds to the last word. We confess we were not over interested in the exposition of the law that enabled The Long Chance to be won. That, however, did not cut into the plot of a story that is a picture of heroic struggling against odds, the effects of the lust of gold on men's life, and the good that is in the worst of us. Somehow the character that lives longest in the mind is not the resourceful engineer or the winsome cash girl, or the villain of the piece who makes his wealth through treachery, but the worst man in ,the town who makes good in spite of himself.. With a rare sympathy the gambler is described, and in spite of his character there is something natural in all he does. He could not have done otherwise, being what he was. He well deserved the lines on his tomb — Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, Yet good will bring him where the blessed are. As the man who had killed the heroine's father and had been the cause of all the hero's misfortunes visited his grave he was moved, and said to the heroine, "I have suffered, but I haven't paid all of the price. Tell your husband that I want to help him. I have thought it all over and I was coming to tell him myself. Tell him, please, that I would appreciate the privilege of being a minority stock holder in his enterprise, and I will honour his sight drafts while I have a dollar left." How all this came about is told by Mr. Kyne, who is as virile in his style as he is tender in his sympathies. No one can read The Long Chance without interest, and no one can lay it down without feeding that it pays in the long run to be straight, decent and upright. A book for men, which women will find entertaining.

"WAIF 0' THE SEA." MESSRS. JARROLD send us Waif o' the Sea (7s. 6d.), by the well-known sea author, Cyrus T. Brady, who has framed his story between two historical facts. The mutiny with which it opens actually occurred, but we are not told whether the brave boy was in truth the charming girl as she is in fiction. We rather ithink not, but the whole tale turns on this point and the amazing adventures she meets on a short-handed vessel that falls into the hands of Chileans, to be captured by Spaniards, and finally to be cut out by the mate, who weds the heroine. The book has a true breath of sea breezes through it. It makes old travellers plunge once again in memory into forgotten storms, it calls to mind the generosity that is born of sea com- radeship, and the strong, brave men that become stronger in their intercourse with people, of all classes. The sea waif was at once a skilled seaman and an attractive woman. She had all the sharpness born of lighting the waves and all the quick intuition of her sex. We do not know any tale in which a boy-girl central figure so frequently changes her dress and assumes the sex she had no right to appear in. No one can, however, object to that, for every time she mas- querades she does so for a good reason. Part of the book is unintelligible, until we realise that in the climax Lord Dun- donald—that strange genius who anti- cipated so many naval schemes—appears on the scenes. He is drawn to life. Those who have read of him in the pages of history at once recognise him in his dauntless courage and confidence- irtspiring habits. He certainly was the Fisher of his day-if we may be per- mitted the comparison—and no reader will be at a loss to supply the parallel, incidents that make ithis comparison inevitable, in spite of the fact that Lord Fisher never left his country to serve under a foreign flag. Mr. Brady has probably not read Memories before he wrote this book, but might not this have come straight from that entertain- ing, unconventional volume? The pis- tols are for the boy Rey, who will know how to use them should ever be need, which God forbid. The ring is one I designed for my wife. When I tell Miss Audrey's story she will join witfc me in giving it to the brave and beauti- ful wife of my old friend, Captain Ben- jamin Clough, with the good wishes of an old sailor.—Dundonald." The way in which the cutting out of the Esmeralda is told proves Mr. Brady to be a first- rate spinner of a sea yarn.

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