26 JULY 1884, Page 25

Trafalgar. By D. Percy GaldOs. From the Spanish by Clara

Bell. (Triibner and Co.)—This is a story of some of the great naval fights of the Napoleonic wars, told—and told, too, in a very vigorous style —from the Spanish point of view. The scenes of domestic life are humorously painted, while the fighting is described with an energy and a graphic power which our own writers, supposed to be inimitable in this kind of literature, certainly do not surpass. We may add, that the translator has done very well for her author.