17 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 39

The Middy and the Moors. By R. M. Ballantyne. (Nisbet

and Co.)—Mr. Ballantyne's boy-friends, who must be pretty numerous by this time, will have a good idea of what sort of entertainment he will provide for them when they hear of the stock-in-trade, so to speak, that he starts with. There is an adventurous middy who gets captured by Algerine pirates (the story belongs to the days when the European nations were too busy quarrelling with each other to put down the corsairs), a comic Negro, a beautiful young lady, herself a prisoner, and in terror of being married to her owner's son. There are adventures in abundance ; and Mr. Ballantyne knows his public too well not to let them, after a due period of suspense, end well.