17 DECEMBER 1887, Page 29

The Cruise of the ' Bacelatior a Novel. By Bret

Harts. 2 vole. (F. V. White and Co.)—This is hardly one of Mr. Bret Harte's best stories. The sketch of the Senor Perkins, the bland, keen filibuster, is good, and the picture of Todoe Santos, with its soft, incessant fog• bank, is very interesting;. bat for the rest, the characters are not strongly drawn, and the story is a confused and confusing one. Bret