25 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 24

The Wreck of the ' Golden Fleece.' By Robert Leighton.

(Blackie rienk begin and Son.)—This is a story of the sea, in several acts. W with an animated account of a Lowestoft herring-boat caught in a storm, with the greater part of its crew disabled by d

is not till l+re have .got well on in the book that we reach the story of the Golden Fleece.' This is a bark which carries for

Passengers a French nobleman, who has escaped from the Revolution—this is the time to which the story is supposed to belong—and his daughter. Here, then, we have a heroine; the hero is provided in the shape of a lad, son of a Suffolk parson, who has taken to a fisherman's life. The story is full of interest and variety, and laudably free from sentimentality.