A Chapter of Adventures. By G. A. Henty. (Blackie and
Son.) —Alexandria is the nominal scene of action in this story, as New Zealand is in that which has just been noticed. And again we are delayed considerably on our journey thither. Nevertheless, it is an excellent story throughout. Jack's adventure with his two young companions, when the party is caught by the tide, is very well told; while the narrative of the rescue of the crew of the Petrel" is as good a thing of the kind as we have seen for some time. The Chapter of Adventures is, indeed, largely a naval novel. Jack is obviously one of those who are not born to be drowned. He goes through some very perilous adventures, which reach their climax when his ship is caught in a cyclone in the Indian Seas, and he and his comrade carried bodily with a boat some half-a-mile from the sea. (The tornado is supposed to be the same that wrought such frightful damage in the delta of the Ganges some few years ago.) What we hear about the bombard- ment of Alexandria is good enough ; but it occupies but a small portion of the book. If Mr. Henty takes to writing sea-stories of this kind with so much vigour and dash in them, it is clear that Mr. Clark Russell will have to look to his laurels.
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