The Cruise of the Kate. By E. E. Middleton. (Longmans.)—This.
is one of those books of adventure of which Mr. Macgregor's journals are the typical specimens. "The Kate" seems to be one of those yachts, if the term may be allowed, built to hold one, in which adven- turous amateurs delight to journey about our coasts. Mr. Middleton meets with the usual number of hairbreadth escapes. In feet, when one thinks that even a slight accident that made the yachtsman in- efficient would be certain death, such escapes must be continual. But- it is no use preaching to these gentlemen. The sea is just as good a place to endanger one's life in as a mountain. The most notable thing in the volume before us, which is generally spirited and agreeable, is one sufficiently far removed from its general subject,—an extraordinary "yearning," to which the writer owns, that "the publishers of this country would issue a cheap edition of Aristotle's 'Ethics,' in large print, for the poor to read."
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