The Rover's Quest. By Hugh St. Leger. (W. and R.
Chambers.). —This is a pleasant story of salt-water adventures, treasure- finding, and, as a consequence, happy marriages ; nor is it any the less pleasant that it runs on somewhat familiar lines. The poor young man, Noel Hamilton, that goes to BOA with a fidue Achatts, or, rather, guardian angel, in the person of Sam Port, who has been befriended by Noel's father, looks like an old friend, and of course we have often had, especially in fiction intended for boys. lively tales of brutal mates, mutinous crews, and hairbreadth escapes from shipwreck. Mr. St. Leger, however, contrives to. invest this tolerably old story with a great deal of freshness, in. the way both of plot and of description, and it is literally true. that there is not a dull page in his book. The story of Mr. Simpson, the owner of the barque Rover,' has a romance and a. tragedy all its own.
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