(Canterbury " Press.")

"Frank Melton's Luck, or Off to New Zealand." By Thomas Cotole. Published by H. Brett, Auckland.—Outwardly this book bears the appearance of a " shilling shocker," but inwardly it is crammed full of love-making, adventure, descriptions of station, goldmining, and bush-fighting life in New Zealand, together wibh quite a respectable allowance of the history of. this colony woven in, such slighb liberties being taken with it as a wriber of fiction always feels justified in taking for the sake of increasing his effects or making his incidents hang together. The plot of tho story i 3 a little thin in places, and the workmanship is somewhat rough, but most of the descriptions are very true to life, and come of them are written with a good deal of spirit. On this accounb the book will appeal to the sympathies of a good many readers, and should havo a good 3sle.
("Lyttolton Times.")

'• Frank Melton's Luck,"—Wo have re ceived a copy of a novel, bearing the above title, written by Mr Thomas Cottle, and printed and published by Mr H. Biett, of Auckland. It is a narrative of adven ture in the North Island in the last Maori war, and tho " flush times " of tho Thames gold field.
