30 MARCH 1895, Page 24

To Punish the Czar. By Horace Hutchinson. (Cassell and Co.)

—There is hardly the true adventurous ring about this tale of the Crimea, though it gives an interesting account of the Crimean operations and presents a true picture of campaigning life. There is plenty of romance—the story opens with a farewell ball on the eve of the war—but the result is hardly a novel, yet by no means a regular boy's book of adventures, and we are not sure that this type of story is a success. However, the campaigning is well done and the descriptions are good, and some of us might renew our recollections of '54 with some pleasure in To Punish the Czar.