A Middy of the Slave Squadron. By Harry Collingwood. (Blackie
and Son. 5s.)—This "West African Story" takes us back some ninety years to the days when the operations of the Slave Squadron on the West African Coast were a matter of importance. The evil is not altogether at an end, but it has to be combated in other ways. Richard Fortescue, a Devonshire lad, who tells his own story, was senior Midshipman on board the 'Psyche' in the year 1822. Mr. Collingwood provides plenty of adventures for him. Shipwreck, fighting with slave-drivers, capture first by a French slaver—the French stuck to the business longer than we did—and then by savages,—all these, and others too numerous to mention, come into the day's work. The savages have happily a lady among them who plays the part of Pocahontas. How it all ends we leave our readers to find out for themselves.
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