“Captain Jackman; or, A Tale of Two Tunnels,” is a story by W. Clark Russell, not so elaborate in plot as some of his stories, or so full of life on the sea, but some of the characters are sailors, and its incidents are of the ocean, if not on it. Its hero is dismissed from the command of a ship by her owners, because of his loss of the proceeds of a voyage, which they evidently think he had appropriated to himself. The heroine discovers him in and rescues him from a deserted smuggler’s cave, where he had by some mischance imprisoned himself. He handsome, she romantic as well, they fall in love with each other. Her father, a retired commander of the Royal navy, storms and swears to no purpose, for she elopes with the handsome captain, who starts on an expedition to capture a Portuguese ship laden with gold—a mad scheme, conceived as it appears by a madman, which accounts for his curious and unconventional ways, —_Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer_, July, 15, 1899. It is readable, interesting, and admirable in its technical skill. Mr. Russell, without apparent effort, creates an atmosphere of realism. His personages are often drawn with a few indicative strokes, but this can never be said of his central figures. In the present little story the fascinating personality of Captain Jackman stands our very clearly. He is a curious study, and the abnormal state of his mind is made to come slowly into the recognition of the reader just as it does into that of old Commander Conway, R. N. This is really a masterly bit of story-craft, for it is to this that the maintenance of the interest of the story is due. The reader does not realize at first that he is following the fortunes of a madman, but regards Jackman as a brilliant adventurer. The denouement is excellently brought about, although it gives the tale its sketchy character.—_N. Y. Times_, July 1, 1899. _A Rogue’s Conscience_ _By DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY_ _311 pages, size 7½ x 5 cloth, 3 stampings, $1.00_ It is rather unusual to find a detective story written from the criminal’s point of view, and truth to tell, in this “Rogue’s Conscience,” by David Christie Murray, we find our sympathies and anxieties strongly following the hunted ones. Mr. James Mortimer and Mr. Alexander Ross were such entertaining sinners, and their disguises were so marvellous, and their escapes so hair-breath, that we follow the comedy of their fortunes with unfailing cheerfulness. When the scene shifts from city risks to the broad field of mining camp speculations, we see the beginning of the end, for here the “rogue’s conscience” commenced to work, and a double reformation ends the book in a blaze of glory. The story has just enough seriousness to give it balance but by no means enough to destroy the pleasantly light and entertaining quality of the book.—_Literary World_, August 5, 1899.