The Brotherhood of the Coast. By David Lawson Johnstone. (W.
and R. Chambers.)—By the " Brotherhood" is meant Buccaneers. But these have not much to do with the story, though they have something to do with the catastrophe. Nigel Elphinstone, being somewhat inclined to take part with the Covenanters, is despatched by his friends to London, finding for company a certain Captain Duncombe. The friends are captured by a Dutch man-of-war, escape from the Dutch prison to which they are consigned, and have various adventures in England, in Scotland, and finally in the West Indies. There are certain complications in Nigel Elphinstone's love-affairs. Altogether the tale, told as it is with much spirit, is very readable. An "Editor" occasionally notes some obscure expression. He should not have allowed a cavalier of the seventeenth century to use so very modern an expression as "'Tis a Ferrara, I see, and a good one at that."
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