AMONG THE BOOKS.
A WOMAN OF WILES. By Alxck Munro.
I ondoii : Ward, Lock, and Co. Dunedin : Braithwaite's Book Arcade. A .story of the restlessly adventurous tjpe, in -which the scene moves from Amsterdam to Lisbon, from Lisbon to
Johannesburg, and the company is always of a strange kind. The hero — if one may misuse the word — is one Charlie D> l> -re, a man of means, presumably ca«-t lor the pdit of a gentleman, but falling somewhat short of the mark; the villain, one Fort, a despicable scoundrel of very third-c ass nunt, beiny as much kn tve as fool; the heroines, a &inarfc barmaid aad smarter
Let us not
widow. If we indicate the plot, without any attempt at filling the detail, we shall have more than made a generous return, for the penance of reading the book ! Suffice it, then, to say that the plot consists of a scheme by which some jewels, hidden at the time of the great earthquake of Lisbon, are to be found and appropriated by two persons who have not the shadow of a claim to their possession.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2529, 3 September 1902, Page 69
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186AMONG THE BOOKS. Otago Witness, Issue 2529, 3 September 1902, Page 69
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