: To The West by Fenn George Manville Morgan Walter Jenks Illustrator - Frontier and pioneer life British Columbia Juvenile fiction; Canada Emigration and immigration Juvenile fiction; British Columbia Gold discoveries Juvenile fiction

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Illustrator: W.J. Morgan

To The West, by George Manville Fenn.

At fifteen hours this is a fairly long book for this author. It starts with two young men working as clerks in the offices of a tyrannical auctioneer. Fed up with his unpleasant behaviour they give up their jobs and determine to set out for British Columbia. To get there they must take passage in a ship going round the Horn, and up to San Francisco. Then they have to make their way further up the coast to their destination. On the way they encounter various characters, some good and honourable, and others very much the reverse. Finally they arrive and set to work seeking for gold. Of course there are more adventures and tense situations, as you would expect from this author.

Fenn is very good at describing places, even ones to which he has never been. Personally I prefer the books set in England, but that is not to say that this book is anything but most enjoyable, and I commend it to you.

TO THE WEST, BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN.

MR. JOHN DEMPSTER.

"What would I do, sir? Why, if I were as poor as you say you are, and couldn't get on here, I'd go abroad."

"But where, sir? where to?"

"Anywhere. Don't ask me. The world's big enough and round enough for you, isn't it?"

"But without means, Mr Dempster?"

"Yes, sir, without means. Work, sir--work. The same as I have done. I pay my poor rate, and I can't afford to help other people. Good morning."

I heard every word uttered as I sat on my stool in the outer office, and I felt as if I could see my employer, short, stout, fierce-looking and grey, frowning at the thin, pale, middle-aged man whom I had ushered in--Mr John Dempster he told me his name was--and who had come to ask for the loan of a little money, as he was in sore distress.

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