Sir Ludar
A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
By Talbot Baines Reed
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For regular readers of Reed's works this will be a surprise. Not a
mention of a school or its inhabitants! Set in the late sixteenth
century and couched in slightly archaic English, it narrates the
adventures of an apprentice to a printer. But this young lad gets
caught up in all sorts of adventures, and is especially drawn to Ludar,
a young Irish rebel.
There is a good deal of travelling by sea, and though this sounds
convincing as Reed writes it, there is not much depth in it. In other
words you do not need a deep knowledge of rigging and seamanship to
follow what is happening, as you do with, for instance, the work of
W.H.G. Kingston.
There is a slightly dream-like feel about this book. We jump from one
situation to the next without, sometimes, being sure how we got there.
Try the book for yourself, and see what you think. NH.
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SIR LUDAR
A STORY OF THE DAYS OF THE GREAT QUEEN BESS