Jack Trevor, R.N. By Arthur Lee Knight. (Warne and Co.)—
Chapters about school life, with the farcical names of Picklerod Priory and its master, Mr. Samuel Smitehead, do not prepossess one in favour of this tale. But when the writer gets away from the land, he improves in his style and matter. The hero and his enemy Plummer, smuggler and pirate, have both, it would seem, more lives than are commonly allotted to man. The villain, how- ever, has, as is only right, less than the hero, and is finally dis- posed of before the story comes to an end. We leave Jack Trevor still in his early youth ; but if he lived long in the service of the Crown, it is to be hoped that he had not always the same genius for involving all who had to do with him in perilous adventures. But anyhow he makes a capital subject for an exciting story.
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