"FRANK MELTON'S LUCK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 142, 16 June 1892, Page 2

"FRANK MELTON'S LUCK.

The Canterbury " Press " says :—■ "Outwardly this book has the appearance of a shilling Bbocker, but inwardly it is crammed full of love-making, adventure, description, of Btation, goldmining, and bush-fighting! life in New Zealand,'together with* quite a! respectable allowance of the history of the colony woven in." •<.r.,--v r «%--";;--." ■;;;,-■ ■«; ; tfWftirarapa">."Standard :"-^" This ia a capital * story. %By its \ combination ? of fiction with fact,' of stirring historical occurrences with love-making and nprcounfcryi race ;f' Frank j Melton's Luck 1 doea something to roll away the reproach that we "have no" disflinctive »literaturej nothing redolent of the land and .life p£ New Zealand. '.*."''. Mr Cdtble has aj great gittvof description, and with .the minute touches of a Defoe, he makes his readers realise the scenes he puts before them."- y f'S • ' •■"■ Vl ;: y«Northern . : Advocate.''': — "Of 'scenea typical of station life, the cattle muster, tie pig hunt and the Christmas party are ad; mirably described, and the truth, accuracy, and vividnesa of the .demotion given ot the 'gold fever in .'.the good : old mining days,' land of che Hauhau War. . . '."•' ./.can be attested by those who took part in '\VKiimi' I'■<'■*'< ■*•■■' '"="•■• ;> ■ :";'')■'■>>'■■'" ■•• ;v '■■■•'' '■•» '■ ' ■•' Otago Witness " :—" We read ; the first few chapters of/this book from a sense of duty and a conscientious desire to do justice to a colonial author, whose preface intimated that, his aim was to realistically and faithfully ; depict Btation life in New Zealand; we read the balance without rising, because we liked it. The writer has very sensibly woven his description of the phase of colonial life to which ho refers into a narrative. Some good descriptive \ bits 'there are, some fair power of narrative, as for instance the description of an up-country race meeting in the North Island, while-the Wanganui Gup is won. by ah outsider euphoniously christened Dot-and-go-dne, which is really an excellent name, and the dramatic incident in the church which precedes; the fall of the curtain on virtue triumphant, and vice dragged off to merited punishment, which is the goal where all ■ good stories—and plays, according to Miss Kemble—ought to end;". ■' •'■":: ". :•'■.'' ';:. ;' : •';- ';' .'■ ■■■"*■;'■