19 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 11

An Old-Time Yarn. By Edgar Pickering. (Blackie and Son.) —This

is the story of one Anthony Ingram's adventures on the Spanish Main in the year 1567, and throughout the narrative the flavour of the Elizabethan freebooters and their life lends an addi- tional attraction to a really good yarn. The expedition is under the command of Hawkins and Drake, and the portraits of these adventurous seamen, whatever their accuracy, are full of vitality and colour, quite vivid enough to rouse enthusiasm in the youth- ful reader. An Old-Time Yarn is a stirring tale, well told in appropriate manner, of the greatest period of English seamanship, and boys will read it with delight.