21 DECEMBER 1889, Page 21

the stirring incidents of the French Revolution. The tale begins

in Brittany, where we fall in with the Chouan leaders ; then comes the fatal Quiberon Expedition, and afterwards the Coup d'Etat, besides numerous adventures on the seas. There is quite a genuine ring about the naval fights, which are all well fought, and of a nature gratifying to English boys. Colonel Walmsley has worked in his historical details very well, and has given to his story quite the atmosphere of those stirring times. The captain of the lugger must not only have been a sanguine man, but possessed of remarkably good eyesight, to see land " dis- tinctly " at "thirty to forty" miles' distance.