FRANK MELTON'S LUCK.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS,

A Southern paper says:—"Outwardly this book has the appearance of a shilling shocker, bub inwardly it is crammed full of love-making, adventure, description of station, goldmining and bushfighting life in New Zealand, together with quite a re spectable allowance of the history of the colony woven in." Wairarapa "Standard:"—"This is a capital story. By its combination of fiction with fact, of stirring historical occurrences with love-making and up-country race meetings, 'Frank Melton's Luck' does something to roll away the reproach that we have no distinctive literature, nothing redolent of the land and life of New Zea land. . . . Mr Cottle has a great gift of description, and with the minute touches of a Defoe, he makes his readers realise the ecenee he puts before them." "Northern Advocate:"—" Of scenes typical of etation life, the cattle mueter, the pig hunt and the Christmas party are admirably described, and the truth, ao curacy, and vividness of the depiction given of the gold fever in • the good old mining days, , and of the Hauhau War. . 1 . . oan be attested by those who took part in them."

THE AUCKLAND STAR, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1892.
