_A recent Novel_.--Having lately met with an extremely rare
little volume, the title of which runs thus: "La prise d'un Seigneur
Ecossois et de ses gens qui pilloient les navires pescheurs de
France, ensemble le razement de leur fort et le rétablissement d'un
autre pour le service du Roi ... en la Nouvelle France ... par le
sieur Malepart. Rouen, le Boullenger, 1630. 12o. 24pp." I was
reminded of a modern novel, the principal scenes of which are laid
in an island inhabited by a British nobleman of high rank, who,
having committed a political crime, had been reported dead, but was
saved by singular circumstances, and led the life of a buccaneer.
Can any of your numerous readers be good enough to mention the title
of the novel alluded to, which has escaped my memory?