With the Allies to Pekin. By G. A. Henty. (Mackie
and Son. 6s.)—The story of the relief of the Legations still possesses a great interest, and this, the last of those carefully thought out campaigning adventures which we associate with the name of Mr. Henty, has more colour and more incident than the later productions of his prolific pen. As a popular account of the beginning of the trouble, the attack on Tientsin, and the march to Pekin, it is as good as it, well could be. Young Bateman is here, there, and everywhere ; there is no holding him in, and
even Sir Claude Macdonald is unable to reprimand him severely for breaches of regulations which always succeed. A boy could have no better guide to that story of British pluck and energy. Mr. Henty could speak plainly at times ; he alludes to the disgraceful fact that at the outbreak the ships of the China Station possessed no modern quick-firing guns !
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