19 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 11

Englishman's Haven. By W. J. Gordon. (F. Warne and Co.)—

Mr. Gordon's tale relates the last days of Louisbourg, the strong- hold of the French in Canada about a hundred and fifty years ago. The combined siege by the colonists takes place after an attempt by the enemy to take Annapolis Royal, where the hero and his father had landed from England. It is all good reading, with nothing, indeed, very striking, but giving the reader an idea of the stuff the New Englanders were made of, and their enthu- siasm. Wolfe, Boscawen, Rodney, and others figure in the narra- tive with effect, also a noble Red-man. Englishman's Haven is good enough for us to have wished it more vigorous in treatment and style.