The Middy of the Btunderbore' By Lieutenant C. Gleig, R.N.
(W. and R Chambers. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Gleig has planned his new book on time-honoured lines. Pirates have done duty over and over again as a theme for boys' stories. But they never fail in their appeal to youthful imaginations, and the writer treats his subject with freshness and vigour. The Blunderbore' is a ship on the China Station, and the hero and his friends have many other adventures and difficulties quite unconnected with the " black flag." We somehow feel that Mr. Gleig is not so happy in this part of his story. We are left with the feeling that, though the author's grasp of technicalities where his own pro- fession is concerned is undoubted, the same can hardly be said of his excursions into fiction. Broxmore in particular, and the incidents connected with him, strike us as being overdrawn and lacking in cohesion.
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