19 SEPTEMBER 1903, Page 24

Marjorie. By Justin Huntly McCarthy. (Harper and Brothers. 6s.)—Mr. McCarthy

gives us* a romance of the sea in Marjorie. But although the adventures are sometimes in themselves exciting, the book is not very well knit together, and the general effect is rather inconclusive. However, the fight on Fair Island is well described, though we doubt if even such very young commanders as Lancelot Amber and Raphael (or Ralph) Crowninshield would have been taken in by the stratagem by which the leader of the pirates gains entrance to their stockade.