NEW BOOKS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15456, 19 September 1914, Page 3

NEW BOOKS.

"A LAD OF KENT/' "A Lad of Kent," by Mr Herbert Harrison, is a worth-while i,tory ot" r Ei»t;lanel of the last century, when' smtstrs; int; was a pn.tUahle and almost an honourable pursuit antl when men > were handed tut" sheep-stealing- But it : is something more than a j,tury. It is; a faithful picture of the days ok' the stagecoach and m the h <:hwayrnaii. | the days of the French wars, when the j pris.? gang rcrn ted fur the kind's| navy by the- stmp'e expedient, of tak ; n«| by forte every ahlr. bodied man within j The hero is a voting boy of dwrbtfttt parentage who is living \v : th h>-> <_"'.ardtan and randf-.-s of cvervtVns; ►'X'.e{)t_ boy s pursuits and the diffauU ties of Kettiu<i ftiouch to pat. Then the »o : ts of fat*- lt»-«tn to fall around Philip. He- seerrvc to he in far a person; of impnrt:>nr*» that attempts are imdo j N> murder him, and in hr> passes through i»'»h'fss 2»dv*nttirrs awtmn s'uupgtersand tie pr-rado*--; imtii at last the p-oblfsu Ls and a triw.-d many unpleasant' ricr-i-rti ntfi't tti<-ir tV The story itwdf is w>-'l worth tc)Y'n<z, but the v. ay ; n whi'-h it •« tt'!»t is *'V : de>u-e of rareftd wpfkrnajL-hM. a"d ti skill l>>vond tfm orlin:TV. ?,! -ri'i'lin'-i C ' riial I.'rbra-? Me*.-rs I* W. ll»rh,r> am ] Co.. local agents. i»s Od and fls fid.