3 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 9

The Boy's Book of Buccaneers, by Eric Wood (Cassell and

Co., Is. Rd. net), has a taking title, mut proves to he a we]]-written collection of episodes familiar to the readers of Esquemeling. Sir Henry Morgan is given his due prominence in this rascality, and his daring attacks on Portobello, Maracaibo, and Panama are vividly described. Coxon, John Cook, and Edward Davis were among the other notorious English buccaneers ; but none had such an evil reputation as Lolonoie, a French convict, who turned pirate, did many horrid deeds, and at the end was literally torn to pieces by the Indians of Darien. It is a thrilling book, but nothing in it surpasses in barbarity the modern crimes daily committed in the name of Eultur.