SOME RECENT FICTION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3185, 8 September 1917, Page 11

SOME RECENT FICTION

A N6w Story by "G. B, Lancaster." "Pool Divine," by "G. B. Lancaster" (Hoddor and Stoughton), is one of those full-blooded stories of romantic adventure which woltave learnt to expect from the author of "Sons of Men." The author has deserted her old-time favourite South Sea Island scenario, and uorf takes us with her to Cuba, and, later on, to theUpper A7nazons region. Her lvero, a young American, is a young fellow of adventurous spirit, who has delved deep into the stories of the Spanish aiid British adventurers in the West Indies. Hβ goes off to Cuba to join an American scientific-me<Jlcal mission, which is hunting down tho elusive microbe of yellow fever. A 1 beautiful Cuban girl, deeply imbued with the revolutionary- spirit, fascinates him, and after marrying her lie leaves tho tracking down of lellow Jack to engage in a. series of adventures on the Upper Amazon, whither he. takes his wife. The author is almost overgenerous in her supply of adventurous experiences for both hero and neroiue. The tatter's first and dominating love is for her country, whioh she deems sadly misruled, but in time the couple come to understand each other better, and the wife recognises that love of her husband can equal even devotion to her country s cause. The sentimental reader might possibly desire a different denouement to that afforded, by the author, but the romance, as a romance, makes uncommonly good reading. The local colour is rlmost too vividly brilliant, and the authors style is as flamboyant as ever. But she is a born story-teller, and has astonish, ing powers of imagination, clothing her situations with a compelling dramatic power. * (Reviews of other novels.held over.)