ADVENTURE STORIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18453, 14 January 1922, Page 2

ADVENTURE STORIES

CAPITAL LIGHT READING. Br Constant Reader. 1 While the sun shines and the sea breezes blow there can be nothing better for the holiday-maker thkn a nook and a book, provided that the nook be sheltered and shady and the book the right one.,. And what more enticing than a real good adventure story?. The following are capital '.samples.:— • \ " V “The Qualified-Adventurer." By Sehvya Jepeon. London and Melbourne: Hutchinson. and Co. Dunedin: Whitcombs and Tombs. ■ Born with a love of . adventure, _ Peter Duff was condemned to an obsoure literary life. v ; His jpb at Dalkeith House was the sub-editing (of the Dalkeith -adventure novels, “four of which he prepared for the. eager youth of Great Britain every month.” i Breathing this atmosphere, Peter , knew every dodge in the . adventure game, and when his chance came he seized it. His voyage on “The Bose of Washington Square,” Captain Fellowes , Captain—commonly called “Honest Pig”—in search of the Treasure of the Mancbns, . is full of exciting incidents, in which Mr Weamers. the mate.. plays the part of .villain,' and “Jimmy” Fellowes .is a. beautiful heroine in trousers. The adventures are incredible, ' but the .yarn is a capital one, And as a first novel reflects credit on the author, , who, by the way, is son to Mr Edgar. Jepson,; the well-known novelist,' “The Grass Eater.”- By Phyllis, Austin: London and Melbourne: Hutchinson and Co. Dunedin Whitcomb© and Tombs. Miss Phyllis Austin is a new writer, but she: tells a good-story, in this instance a compound of Mr Richard Le Gallienne’s “Quest of the Golden Girl” and Mr Maurice Hewlett’s “Open Country.” In ' many, respects “Brownie,” Miss Austin’s heroine, is more lovable than Sanchia, • while Pari Lancing, known to his intimates as “The Grass Eater,” is a modem edition of Seahouse. Pan and Brownie adventure together in a caravan, known as “Caliban,” in a style quite as unconvential as in the Suest of the' Golden Girl, and equally to le horror of relatives and friends and to the general scandal, The end is as delightful as it is inevitable, and the opon-aimees of the story makes it just the sort of book for this time of year. “A Child of Eden.” 5 By Morris M'Dougall. London and Melbourne: Hurst and Blackett. Dunedin; Whitoombe and Tombs. * One of the most sought-after stories of. the day depicts on Englishman, masquerading -as an Arab, who captures an -English girl of an unruly disposition and sets to • . work to tame nor in the desert. Mr Morris M'Dougall’s story is modelled on I similar lines. ' Ever since Mr Robert Hookens wrote “The Garden of Allah” the desert has had a fascination for novel . leaders —a fact of which writers of this calibre have not been ■ slow to take advantage. "A Child, of Eden” is quite a readable story, which ends with the captured girl willingly surrendering, herself to the arms of the pseudo-Arab. “Rilla of Ingleside.” By L.M. Montgomery. New Yoik: Frederick A. Stoke and Co. Sydney: Australasian Publishing Company. ' ‘ The author of “Anne of Green Gables” has a largo following, and anything which Miss Montgomery writes is sure of a wide Circulation. “Rilla” is the daughter of the original Anne, a glowing, impetuous, fun-loving girl, with toe same eagerness, the same warmness of heart os her mother. Rilla is called upon to face the realities of life during 1914. and the way in which' she meets the problem of the American girl in war time recalls the courage with which Anne of Green Gables encountered • the difficulties of her young womanhood. v Many old friends play their part in these . new adventures, toer-o including Busan, Mary Vance, and Miss Cordelia, The adventures, although of a quieter sort, wilev make a wide appeal. .