The Blue Pavilions. By " Q." (Cassell and Co.)—The "
blue pavilions " from which the story takes its title, are the neighbouring dwellings of two sea-captains. They are rivals for the hand of a certain lady, and then, she dying almost at the moment when they were meditating courtship, they renew their rivalry for the charge of her child, the son of a worthless husband. The story is laid in the time of William III., whose title, we may say, the two old officers do not acknowledge. " Q." has made use in constructing his tale, which we are inclined to consider as one of his happiest efforts, of the story of the " Captain of the ' Nightingale,"' as told by Professor Laughton in the Historical Review. The worth- less husband of Mistress Salt, vainly aspired to by the two old heroes, is the traitor who figures in that narrative.
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