A Clever Sporting Novel by a New Author 



Crown 8vo, cloth extra, $s. 6d. 



WHITE STAR 



The Story of a Racehorse 

 By C. DARCY FRIEL 



PRESS OPINIONS 



" It is a curious commentary on,the morality of the turf that any ' story 

 of a racehorse ' should contain more villainy to the page than any other 

 kind of novel. Followers of a fine sport have really their novelists to 

 blame if a very large section of the British public believes firmly that most 

 owners, trainers and bookmakers are criminals, either in posse or in esse. 

 Mr Darcy Friel has not, it is true, followed the time-worn convention as far 

 as some of his contemporaries, but he has compressed a very respectable 

 amount of crime into his history of White Star.' His villain is a forger, 

 a thief, and a would-be murderer, and of course he had ' a cruel glitter in 

 his light blue eyes.' If we remember our Sherlock Holmes correctly, Mr 

 Friel has also been content to follow precedent in carting his stolen race- 

 horse about the country in a furniture van. However, there are some fresh 

 features in the book, and the adventures of Jack Carsdale and Bertie 

 Wingrove as amateur ' bookies,' and, subsequently as amateur detectives, 

 are by no means unamusing. There is, too, the necessary description of a 

 classic race in this instance the St Leger in which the equine hero wins 

 by a short head ; and the description is really spirited. Mr Friel is most 

 original, however, in finding the god from the machine who shall save 

 Carsdale from being hanged for murder in the person of a man who (as 

 seems to be usual after big race meetings) has been travelling under the 

 seat of a rail way carriage." East Anglian Daily Times. 



"With the theft of a thoroughbred opens a story of no great depth, but 

 written in a style that holds the reader's interest. Henry Carsdale's 

 jealousy prompts him to play the rogue through a series of breezy chapters, 

 and the final triumph of White Star brings to a close an entertaining story. " 

 T.P.'s Weekly. 



LONDON: R. A. EVERETT & CO., LTD., 

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