Through Fire and Water. By Rev. T. S. Millington. (The
Religious Tract Society.)—This is a very well constructed and well-written story of adventure, in which there is a trifle—but not too much—of preaching, by example, however, rather than by precept. The hero is a lad with the very commonplace name of John Smith. But he begins well, by having an adventure with highwaymen. He escapes from their clutches, and ever defeats their intentions upon others. He very nearly becomes a soldier, and is pressed to take this step by a man to whom he has performed a great service, and who could have advanced his interests. But he would be a sailor, and in the course of carrying out his inten- tions, finds himself in the pirate city of Algiers before its bom- bardment by Lord Exmouth. Mr. Millington is thus enabled to give his story the character both of a " descriptive " and of a historical novel, and is eminently successful. His Algerian scenes, more particularly, are in every way admirable.
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