("Wairarapa Standard.")

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 117, 18 May 1892, Page 2

("Wairarapa Standard.")

The *' Wairarapa Standard," in reviewing "Frank Melton's Luck," cays :—"This ia a capital story ; the plot is entertaining, and the character sketches show that the author has considerable power of observation. Bub perhapa the chief attraction of the book lies in its faithful and sprightly description of our colonial life. By its combination of fiction with fact, of stirring historical occurrences with love-making and up-country race meetings, 'Frank Melton's Luck' does something to roll away the reproach thab we have no distinctive literature, nothing redolent of the land and life of New Zoaland. Here is the kind of book thab should bo widely read, alike by those who want to know.something of our way 3. and by those who know them already from experience. To the now 4>m, the true tale tho author tell 3 will bo worth digesting ; while to the old colonist ib should bring a delightful, hour or two of memories. For we have here evidently the bona fide reminiscences of a North Island settler, woven into a firstrate yarn about pretty girls, station life, gold "mining, and fighting with the Maoris. Mr Cobtle has a great gift of description, and with the minute touches of a Defoe he makes his readers realise the scenes he puts before them."