At Aboukir and Acre. By G. A. Henty. (Blackie and
Son.)— A tale of the French in Egypt is not inappropriate to the present time. If Mr. Henty had foreseen the arrival of M. Marchand at Fashoda he could not have written anything more suitable. Our neighbours were then more frank in avowing their designs, for Napoleon did not pose as an emissary of civilisation, a character scarcely suitable to the author of the Jaffa massacre. Edgar Blagrove has a lively time. He 1300E4 the French army at the Pyramids, in company, one might say, with the twenty centuries which Napoleon invoked. He sees them again, and under various circumstances, while he is acting as naval aide-de-camp to Sir Sidney Smith and when he is serving under Nelson at the battle of the Nile. after this comes an interlude of pirate-hunting in the Archipelago. Then we get back to history, and witness the battle of Alexandria. It is difficult to keep count of Mr. Ilenty's very numerous stories, with their respective degrees of merit ; but there is no doubt but that, for intrinsic interest and appropriate- ness, At Aboukir and Acre should rank high in the list.
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