18 FEBRUARY 1893, Page 25

The Doctor of the Xuliet.' By Harry Collingwood. (Methuen and

Co.)—This is a sea-story, told with all the spirit which Mr. Collingwood knows how to throw into a tale. The materials are familiar enough. In this respect, indeed, there can hardly be much variety. Mutiny, piracy, and the recovery of a buried treasure, for which the good and the bad characters contend, are -inanely novelties ; but our author gives them a fresh and effec- tive setting. Perhaps the least familiar incident is a volcanic .eruption at sea. Whether it is an effort of fancy, or a description of fact, we know not, but it is certainly striking.