SYNOPSIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2193, 24 September 1907, Page 3

SYNOPSIS.

In this story the author makes colonial life a living, stirring, graphic reality. AA'iith that rare power of visualising the scenes which he describes, he carries the reader on from incident to incident in a way which makes the characters and the country live before him. AVhilst following with muscles involuntarily tense the powerful scenes enacted, tho reader is inevitably reminded of the thrill with which he or She once read “The Last of the Mohicans.” As the title suggests, the love interest is strong and persistent, and the good-natured and often self-sacri-ficing rivalry between tlio glume but raw young Englishman and the tough prairie-bred colonial forms a splendid theme for such a writer. To give a bare mention of tho incidents of the story robbed of tho action and glamor in which they are set would convey lint poof idea of its scope. Tho climax where the hero, with broken ribs still unhealed, makes a dash on his despised English limiter through the lines of Indians attacking the farm, and, gaining a lead by the tremendous leap of a chasm, sets out, now with a bullet in his arm, on his fifty-mile ride for help, brings a thrill to the very roots of the liair. This is a story which no reader who likes a tale in which the heroes are real men and tlio heroines real women should miss. Humor is not lack-

ing iu the mistakes into winch the Englishman is led by his ignorance of colonial life at- the outset, and altogether the story is powerfully entertaining.