7 MARCH 1874, Page 23

Romantic Annals of a Naval Family. By Mrs. Arthur Traherne.

now-a-days, bringing fictitious wares with the most solemn asseverations that they are genuine, that we are bound to be suspicious. Still we shall believe these "Romantic Annals" to be genuine, and so believing, may say that they were well worth publishing. The career of Hugh Christian makes a capital story, and nothing in it is more characteristic aid delightful than the episode of his marriage. We notice an in- accuracy in page 228, where it is said that one of the Christian family "was pronounced the loveliest woman that had over been seen at the Court of the Hague, when Lucien Buonaparte reigned there." Lucien Buonaparte was far too sensible a man to be willing to reign at the Hague, or anywhere else.