. Review of reviews and world's work. in that case he would have to be•different; but of all who have copied that masters man-ner, he has certainly succeeded best. Kiplings sublimecocksureness, his equally sublime assumption that hehas probed the human heart, the splendid insolence of hissyntax,—all these are here in a measure, and the highestcompliment that one can pay Mr. Lancaster is to say that,withal, he is not absurd. The stories deal with the menwho herd and shear the sheep in South New Zealandand save them from storm and snow at the cost of hard-ships scarce endurable. At times, too, t
. Review of reviews and world's work. in that case he would have to be•different; but of all who have copied that masters man-ner, he has certainly succeeded best. Kiplings sublimecocksureness, his equally sublime assumption that hehas probed the human heart, the splendid insolence of hissyntax,—all these are here in a measure, and the highestcompliment that one can pay Mr. Lancaster is to say that,withal, he is not absurd. The stories deal with the menwho herd and shear the sheep in South New Zealandand save them from storm and snow at the cost of hard-ships scarce endurable. At times, too, the native playsa part, as in the striking Story of Wi, who discoveredwith scorn the hollowness of the white mans profes-sions and went back to his own folk. It is to be hopedthat Mr. Lancaster will find a manner of his own inwhich to tell his stories in future, which is saying agood deal, even though it is on the side of style, rich ormusical or subtle, that our literature seenu such books hope grows less WARKEN CHENEY.
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