4 NOVEMBER 1899, Page 9

Yule - Tide Yarns. Edited by G. A. Henty. (Longmans and Co.

6s.)—Here are ten stories by well-known writers, Messrs. H. Collingwood, J. Bloundelle-Burton, D. Ker, and F. Whishaw being among them. The first, entitled " Chateau and Ship," is from Mr. Henty's own pen. It is in the main a sea-story, an element on which Mr. Henty does not often venture, and is told with spirit. We notice that the hero of Colonel Percy Groves's tale has a father who was wounded at Bunker's Hill (it should be " Bunker Hill"), being a cornet of horse. But were cavalry engaged at this battle? And were our wounded in such a position that they had to be "rescued from the enemy "?