17 DECEMBER 1864, Page 19

Golden - Hair. I Tale of the Pilgrim Fathers. By Sir L.

Wraxall, Bart. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.)—A thoroughly good boys' book.

The story is full of incident, and always moves on, and it has the groat ad- vantage of having hardly any villains, and even those which are to be found in it have nothing to do with the story, the complications being all produced by the faults of characters which nevertheless, on the whole, command our sympathies. This has, however, been attained by bor- rowing very largely both incidents and characters from Cooper's novels,

and we cannot say that either have gained anything by the transfer. Boys, not being critical, will enjoy the story none the less on that account.