An Ocean Knight. Translated from the French of Fortune du
Boisgobey. (Frederick Warne and Co.)—Hilarion, Chevalier de Tourville, is a name known to Englishmen chiefly as the com- mander of the French fleet at the Battle of La Hogue. That affair was a disaster ; but he had a distinguished career before it happened, for he had served against the Corsairs of the Mediter- ranean. It is this story which occupies the greater part of M. du Boisgobey's book. He does not tell us whether we are to take all his narrative as historical, including the highly entertaining account of the young Hilarion's masquerading as a girl when the Count de Gonville comes to his mother's chdteau to choose a wife from among his sisters. Historical or not, the tale is very well told. Andronica is a very picturesque figure indeed. The illustrations, though unequal, are spirited.
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