Will's Voyages. By F. F. Moore. (S.P.C.K.)—It is generally as
well for a writer of naval stories to gat afloat as soon as he can. Mr. Moore's "great cricket-match" cannot fail to excite criticism. The captain of an eleven would not mutter after a sharp run, "They'll try it again, and get stumped to a certainty ;" while the score of 120 made in an hour (as far as we can make out) is too much even for the most brilliant hitter. Happily, about p. 106, the hero drifts out to sea with the fisherman, Gideon Clasper, and when, about twelve pages further on, the two pick up another young gentleman in much the same plight, we feel that we are all right, though, of coarse, the boat threatens to founder, and bring the whole story to an abrupt end. A good story it turns out to be, and with no little humour, as, for instance, when Gideon finds himself without tobacco ; but it would have been better, we think, if the "wicked uncle" business had been omitted or modified.
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