LITERARY NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 29, 4 February 1899, Page 4 (Supplement)

LITERARY NOTES.

Mr Quiller Couch, the great attthoN ity on everything Cornish; expresses himself imich qtruck with CharleS Lee's 'Paul Carah, Cqrnishman,' a story in James Bowden's Colonial library. ■ : .'",'-■'.'

H. G. Wells has recovered his health, and is building a house at Sandga^e, where the doctors have ordered him to live in future. He has two novels nearly complete—'Love and Mr Lewisham' and 'When the Sleeper Wafces.' The latter is to run through the 'Graphic' some tinie next year.

'The Voyage of the Pulo.Wayo. by Carlton Daw, is it good nautical story, well' told. The narrator, unluckily took a passage aboard a tramp steamer bound from Hong Kong to Manila, the captain of which had entered into a plot to waylay and rob a. steamer bound from Australia to Hong Kong, with £50,000 worth of gold" aboard .The passenger and the second mate are the only two men on board who refuse to enter into the plot, and their lives in conse: quence become seriously endangered. The steamer is met in, due course, and after being robbed is deliberately sunk with all on board, only one young gir], a passenger,, being rescued. The crew of the Pulb Wayo, after the deed has been perpetrated,? 6" come drunken and mutinous,, and th» ' captain is killed in a melee. The ( second mate and passenger have entrenched themselves in the wheel-, house with the girl, and go through some exciting experiences before the vessel is finally wrecked on an island whose savage inhabitants murder all the,crew except the three mentioned," who had been left on the stranded ship to perish, but who in the end are rescued, by a passing steamer, which also recovered the stolen. gold- Theincidents are exciting-, and there, is the thread of a love" story running1 through the main plot. The book » issued in Ward Lock's Colonial Library, and we have received a copy from the publishers per Wildman ana Lyell. :■ . Mr R. D. Blackmore die! a graeefuJ and eenerous thing when he wrote to. the 'Saturday Eeview 1 warmly $*W% :irig W Eden Philpotts' -'Gnildreft- ™ the Mist.' The old author might na™re,sented the Dartmoor tale as^poacu ing on his Instead, »e;P* f esses himself astonished at its beauty* power and truth to life. ... -.-