Our Sailors: a Nautical Novel. By Edward Geery. 3 vols.
(Tinsley.)—We feel inclined to say little more about this volume than that we hope "our sailors " are as little like as may be to the pictures which Mr. Geery has been pleased to label by this title. A brutal tyrant of a captain, an interesting young sailor who runs away to join his newly-married wife, and is virtually flogged to death by the said tyrant, and a certain "Jerry," who makes love to every marriageable young woman whom he sees, are the principal characters of the story. The scene is laid for the most part in China, and when we have said that the writer gives the impression of describing with a certain fidelity the localities and people with which he is familiar, we have exhausted all the praise which we can give to what is certainly an unpleasant tale.
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