1 DECEMBER 1888, Page 24

The 'Saucy May.' By Henry Frith. (Mackie and Son.)— Lawrence

Ernstone, the hero of Mr. Frith's tale, is left alone in the world by the disappearance of his father, and then the tragic death of his mother. In the last he is nearly involved, but just manages to escape. He falls into the hands of a kind merchant, who eventually finds him a situation as boy on board a trawler's boat. We only follow his career during one voyage, but we think it not unlikely that if he experienced many more like it, his love for the sea would be pretty well taken out of him. The situations in which he finds himself are at times anything but pleasant. Mr. Frith's readers are not likely, however, to complain of this. The book is certainly both interesting and exciting.