AMONG THE BOOKS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2529, 3 September 1902, Page 69

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.