A March on London. By G. A. Henty. (Blackie and
Son.)—It is, perhaps, a fault in this story that it wants unity. The "March on London" is concerned with the insurrection of Wat Tyler, but this part of the tale is practically finished when the volume is little more than half way through, and we are then carried on to "Troubles in Flanders." Of course the peasant movement in England was in some sort of sympathy with what happened in the Low Countries ; but this is not an adequate reason for what is certainly a literary blemish. However, Mr. Henty, true as ever, tells a capital story. He make his characters talk a little too much, and in too set a fashion, but, on the whole, he keeps up to the high standard of interest which we have learnt to expect from him. Writers of fiction who trespass on the domain of English history must look narrowly to their ways. The experts will probably point out that the insurgents from Kent and Essex did not find their way to Highbury, as we are given to under- stand on p. 128. The Highbury contingent came from Hertford- shire. Surely the King in the illustration that fronts p. 210 must have been more than fourteen (Richard's age in 1381, the year of the Peasants' Revolt).
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