5 NOVEMBER 1898, Page 28

The Captain's Bunk. By M. B. Maxwell (R.T.S.) — Captain Carnegie, having

retired from the Service, devotes his time to writing a book about sea-battles, and leaves his children to grow up as they may. It is easy to imagine the story that arises out of this state of affairs. Readers will find it sufficiently interest- ing. The most exciting adventure is, perhaps, the rescue of the two sisters. But why will tale-writers spoil a fine effect by this ridiculous fancy about brain-fever ? Theo Carnegie very likely would have suffered greatly from the mental and bodily strain of her narrow escape, but the trouble would not come in the shape of brain-fever, which is no more developed in a few hours in a healthy person than is scarlet-fever or typhoid.