The World of Adventure, 1891. (Cassell and Co.)—This volume is
the successor of one, bearing the same title, that we noticed last year. As that began with " The Charge of the Light Brigade," so does this with "Trafalgar." (The story of the death of the man who shot Nelson is, we fancy, doubtful. One who claimed the credit of the deed, anyhow, lived for many years afterwards.) From Trafalgar we are taken over a wide range of time and place, to many various scenes of war, sport, and disaster. The second paper tells two stories, how a pair of man-eating tigers were slain, and how an old Negro trapper saved himself from a pack of ravenous coyotes by playing " Yankee Doodle " to them. " How We Sacked Panama," in two parts, purports to be the story told by " Jonathan Pinch, Buccaneer, 1670-71." If it really is, we can only say that "Jonathan Pinch, Buccaneer," wrote English very much in advance of his time. " Henry Morgan, that gallant if somewhat bloody-minded Welshman," does not smack of the seventeenth century. Who was the Duke of Marlborough who was " Master-General of the Ordnance " in 1758 ? Among the other stories are " The Infernal Machine " (Fieschi's, 1835), " A Celebrated Claimant " (the pseudo-Tichborne), " The Tale of the ` Lady Hobart,"' and " The Elephant-Hunters." This is a most readable volume.
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