Beacon Fires. By Headon Hill. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—These "War
Stories of the Coast" have a considerable range of time and place. The first, "The Stranger," takes us to the Kentish coast when Napoleon was threatening England with the Army of Invasion at Boulogne. In "The Pedlar of Keyhaven " we have the Dutch war of a century and a half earlier date. Then, again, in "The Missing General" the scene is laid on the Irish coast when the abortive attempt at an invasion was made. Here the chronicler seeks to explain the cause which brought about the very fortunate absence of General Roche. Mr. He,adon Hill is, indeed, great in the department of secret history. Only his readers must be careful not to incorporate his very exciting stories with accepted narratives. The Emperor Napoleon fares, we see, very badly at his hands, but not, we dare say, worse than he deserves.
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