7 NOVEMBER 1885, Page 21

The Voyage of the Aurora.' By IL Collingwood. (Sampson Low

and Co.) —This is a fine naval yarn, with pirates, mutineers, and all the other circumstances, not, of course, forgetting the beautiful heroine, whioh are required to make it complete. We cannot put Mr. Coiling. wood at the top of his particular class of writers of fiction—a place we are inclined to reserve for Mr. Clark Russell—but we willingly acknowledge that he can write a fresh and spirited story, and that he has done this in The Voyage of the Aurora.' We had almost forgotten to mention the inevitable "capture of a shark" as one of the necessary properties of the naval fiction. The description might almost be kept permanently in type.