With Clive in India. By G. A. Henty. (Blackie and
Son.)—Here is a story built, and, as we may expect from so skilled a writer as Mr. Henty, well bnilt, on the foundation of historical fact. Charlie Marryat, by the help of an eccentric but kind old uncle, goes out as a " writer " to India, some time about the middle of the eighteenth century. On the way out he sees something of fighting, the mer- chantman in which he sails meeting two privateers, and giving a very good account of them, and afterwards falling in with pirates. Arrived in India, Charlie, though he is scarcely the chief hero of the story, giving place to Clive, still sees a good deal of adventure. He is in the "Black Hole," and is one of the very few who get out of it;
and the thread of his fortunes runs through the narrative. This takes him to Plessey and Masulipatam, among other places; and finally takes him home, with a very substantial result from the " shaking of the pagoda-tree." It would not be easy to find a better story than this.
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