The story is of Jamestown and the time of Governor Berkley—the unsuccessful insurrection of the slaves, redemptioners and Round heads, and the attacks of the Indians of the frontier on the settlement. It is not a new field. We have had romances of colonial Virginia from "Handsford" down to the excellent work of Mrs. Tiernan and Miss Maud Wilder Goodwin.
There is room for another, however, and especially for one as fresh in description of wood life and romantic in incident as this. The hero, Landless, is one of the redemptioners. He has, of course, been unjustly condemned. He falls in love with the daughter of his master, Colonel Verney; has the opportunity to rescue her when carried off by the attacking Indians, and the result as regards these two young people, but not the ending of the story, may be foreseen.