18 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 10

In the Grip of the Algerine. By Robert Leighton. (Sunday-

School Union.)—The story before us relates the adventures of a would-be page in the days of Queen Elizabeth ; would-be because lie never gets to Court, but is kidnapped by Moors, carried off to Algiers, whence, after many vicissitudes and unsuccessful attempts to escape, he returns to his home. The life on board the galleys and in the pirate city is narrated with much vigour and picturesqueness, and, in addition, we witness the battle of Lepanto, and follow the adventures of the brothers Cervantes. It is a stirring story, and well told, with not a dull page Lam beginning to end. The kidnapping is faintly improbable, but the rest of the story of the captives might well be that of numbers of similar unfortunates.