A Wind from the Wilderness

Résumé du livre

In "A Wind from the Wilderness" (London: T. Werner, Laurie), Mary Gaunt has produced much the best novel, from every point of view, that she has yet written. It describes the adventures of a little party of missionaries with a tobacco trader and his wife, who are endeavouring to escape from a district overrun by a famous band of Chinese robbers. At a late stage in the story they learn that these robbers are led by a man who is in German pay; but that fact neither adds to nor takes from the interest of an engrossing and exciting story. The central figures in the tale are an American woman doctor attached to the mission and a young Englishman of good family and position, who has taken up mission work, but is anxious to get back to Europe to play his part in the war. The story of their long and arduous journey through the uplands and valleys of the China-Thibetan borderland is picturesque and romantic, and at the same time thoroughly convincing. The character-drawing, too, is excellent, the Chinese figures being as arresting as the "foreign devils."