Foes of the Red Cockade. By Captain F. S. Brereton.
(Blackie and Son. 6s.)—The young de Courcys, sons of a French father and an English mother, pay a visit to their grandfather's chateau in La Vendee in time to take part in the guerilla warfare that follows the Republican invasion. A French cousin and a possible heir to the chateau does his best to get George de Conroy into Robespierre's hands, and there are burning chateaux, frenzied peasants, the Paris prison and the guillotine, the escape, and the final return to La Vendee. There is plenty of incident and adventure. Captain Brereton is a trifle prosy at times. Men in moments of danger do not use rounded periods, neither do they use slang, and some mean surely could be found. Boys will relish the hair's-breadth escape of the de Courcys on landing at St. Melo.
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