A Knight of the White Cross. By G. A. Runty.
(Blackie and Son.)—It has been a great pleasure to read this stirring story of the Knights Hospitallers, and their warfare with the Turks,— a story which fittingly concludes with the First Siege of Rhodes. Gervaise Resham has been vowed from his youth to the Order, and entering the Order as one of the grand-master's pages, he rises to be one of its most famous knights, and after destroying innumerable galleys, and even an entire fleet, thereby saving Italy, he takes a distinguished part in the siege. Mr. Henty is as fertile in invention and as vigorous as ever in the narrative of his hero's exploits, and the valiant resistance of the knights against the Sultan's great float. Boys will be fascinated with this vivid and life-like picture of what we can only regard as one of the most striking features of mediwval chivalry,—the long and stubborn fight made by the successive defenders of Jerusalem, Acre, Rhodes, and finally Malta, against overwhelming odds.
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