Kings of the Sea. By Hume Nisbet. (F. V. White
and Co.)— This is a story of the Jacobite times, the hero being mixed up with the rising of 1715. There is fighting on land and fighting on sea. Sir Hugh Driscoll, the hero's father, finding his hopes of a restoration of the Stuarts at an end, takes up the occupa- tion of a privateersman, with a considerable dash of the pirate. The story is brisk and full of exciting incident, but it is not altogether to our taste. There is a little too much of the "Tom Jones" style in it. The greatest admirer of Fielding would hardly recommend this as one of the books that should be read by young people. Mr. Hume Nisbet says, we see, that in the punish- ment of the rebels "King George indulged to the full his venge- ance." Lord Mahon, whose opinion we are inclined to prefer, thinks that the action of the Government in this respect, "con- sidering the spirit of the times, did not exceed the measure of justice and necessity."
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