29 NOVEMBER 1890, Page 23

For England, Home, and Beauty. By Gordon Stables, M.D. (J.

F. Shaw and Co.)—Dr. Stables has almost surpassed himself in this book. Certainly we have read nothing of his that has pleased us more, perhaps we might say, as much. The time is the early days of the long war with France, and the action takes place chiefly on sea, but now and then on land. Some spirited fights between single ships, the "Glorious First of June," an exciting adventure with smugglers on the West Coast of Scotland, stories of the press-gang—one of them very amusing—and scenes from the Irish Rebellion of 1797, are among the contents of the volume. " Beauty " figures in the trio of Dr. Gordon Stables' title, but it scarcely appears in the book, which, we venture to think, is not the worse for its absence.