An Account of the Conduct and Proceedings of the Pirate
Gow. By Daniel Defoe. (Sotheran and Co.)—This is a very curious and interesting reprint of a book, or brochure, tile only copy of which is one in the British MUE3011131. It gives an account of the adventures and atrocities of the scoundrel Gow, who has been awarded a rather unenviable immortality in the pages of Sir Walter Scott's "Pirate." It is believed to be the work of Daniel Defoe, and is certainly written with a good deal of that direct narrative power which is one of the strong points of Defoe as a literary artist. Gow and his associates, of whom the worst was a man named Williams, look the reverse of heroic or picturesque in these pages. Their murder of their captain and other officers was a cowardly affair. Gow did not even show any of that cunning which is generally associated with pirates, in his final transactions in the Orkneys. His capture by his quondam friend, Fee, exhibits a positively marvellous lack of strategic power on his past.
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