17 DECEMBER 1864, Page 20

The Young Yachtsman. By Anne Bowman. (Routledge, Warne, and Routledge.)—This

is a tale of adventure and no mistake. Major Moore and his wife, sons, and daughter, go yachting with Captain Moore, the Major's brother. They visit Iceland, are chased by pirates, are wrecked, buried under an avalanche, see Norway, and Sweden, and the Mahlstrom, and Hecht, and the Geysers, and go through more stirring perils than we have space to enumerate. The author is an ex- perienced writer of juvenile stories, and we cannot doubt that she has provided here such a narrative as boys like. The illustrations add con- siderably to its interest. If stirring incidents "by flood and fell," with just a little spice of romance and a few marriages at the end, which we shall not say a word about, can make a good book for boys, this is one.