Swept Out to Sea. By David Ker. (W. and R.
Chambers.)— This is one of the best stories Mr. Ker has ever produced, and one of the best volumes of the present gift-book season. It is full of incidents in the shape of hair-breadth escapes and murders, and the scene shifts rapidly from Lerwick to the Pitch Lake. The story is full of good characters of the sort that boys and girls invariably like. There is Seymour Hardy, who is not only editor of Boys and Girls, but everybody's good genius. There is his spirited young critic, Flo Cromwell, whom—here Mr. Ker is perhaps a little weak—he marries. There is the rather too Roman father, Major Dare. There is his misunderstood son Alwyn, who turns out to be a manly enough fellow. There is that pink of English gentlemen and yachtsmen, Sir Frederick Goldhall. And then Mr. Ker's pirates, mutineers, and half-breeds are all that could be desired even by boys. Altogether Swept Out to Sea is a great success.
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