PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 23 November 1928, Page 3

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

•■The Bright Eyes of Danger" is a novel dealing with the entrancing period of the "Forty-Five," and, as indicates is full of adventure and romance. Written by John Foster it was published Over twelve vears a no. It is now republished by "Messrs W. and R. Chambers, London and Edinburgh, and ar rives at an opportune time as a line gift book in cheaper form. It is a chronicle of the adventures of Edmund Lay ton in the troubled years 1745 and 1746; tells how he rode from the Border to the Lothian and what bei'el him there; his quest on the Moray seaboard; a love romance that is not'without its sadness; his personal dealings with the Young Pretender: "All of which came of meddling in other people's affairs," as the author remarks." It is a bulky volume of exceptional value The same mail brings to us from Messrs Chambers "The Good Deeds of Samuel Dobbie," a delightful specimen of Scottish humour, appropriately enough published in a low-priced edition. In this, Andrew Hogg to the principal character who is inclined to be unwisely kind. A shrewd sister resents Samuel's being imposed upon and pithily and pawkily instils into him the necessity of bringing his head as well as bis heart into play in connection with nis good deeds, itis final deed in the story will reveal the extent lo which he profits bv his sister's advice.