13 APRIL 1895, Page 24

True as Steel. By the Rev. T. S. Millington. (R.T.S.)—We

are assured by the author that this story of capture by Greek brigands is in the main true, and certainly it reads with a very strong flavour of probability about it. The word brigand sounds romantically in the ear of youth, but the actual brigand, as many have found to their sorrow, is too cruel and businesslike to be cherished as a picturesque figure in modern Europe. Let all boys who delight in adventure, and wish to know what a real brigand is like, read True as Steel, wherein they will find the adventures of some midshipmen in Greece related with much vigour and spirit.