Mont Orgueil Castle : a Tale of Jet sey during
the Wars of the Roses. By J. E. Corbiere. (Biggs and Debenham.)—The by-ways of history are not generally to be searched with success for the materials of romance of so remote a period as the forlorn attempt of Margaret of Anjou to recruit partisans for the failing Lancas- trian cause in France. The Queen of Henry VI. has been put before the world by Shakespeare and Scott with such force and vividness, that no writer can hope to make her more personally interesting than she has been made ; in a word, we know all about Margaret that we want to know. In this story of the cession of the Channel Islands to the French King as a bribe for his help, and their gallant and successful recapture by Harliston and De Carteret, the Queen does not appear except as the motive-power. The story is a stirring one, well told, and the heroes of the brief but brilliant struggle are made lifelike.
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