29 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 22

True Tales of Travel and Adventure, Valour and Virtue. By

James Macaulay, M.A., M.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Macaulay has collected here between forty and fifty stories, making a somewhat curious mixture. "The Siege of Jerusalem by Titus," for instance, is preceded by a "Remarkable Escape from the Massacre at Cawn- pore," and followed by "The Capture of a Spanish Slave Ship." A little classification would not have been out of place; and in the telling of the stories, occasionally, a little more attention to style ; but the book, we need hardly say, is full of very interesting reading.