The weakness which proved fatal to Marryat had shown itself while he was
still a young lieutenant in the West Indies. He had then been invalided
home for rupture of a blood vessel in the lungs, and a military doctor
“also certified to his tendency to ‘hæmoptysis,’ and prophesied that,
without great care, ‘the most dangerous and perhaps fatal results’ would
be the consequence” of rashness. The danger had passed at that time--had
probably been avoided by the use of care--and for many years Marryat had
to all appearance been a very robust man. He was of the best possible
height and build for strength. He was some five feet ten inches high,
with broad deep chest, and his muscular force was exceptionally great.
His portrait, as far as it can be judged of from the engraving prefixed
to “Frank Mildmay,” gives the impression of a man of boundless energy,
open-faced, alert, and keen-eyed. He was black-haired with blue eyes, and
his beard grew so thick and so fast that he was compelled to shave twice
a day. When he came to Langham, in 1843, his strength was apparently
still unbroken, and he might appear sure of long years of health and
capacity for work. But it is clear that there was more appearance than
reality in his strength. When a man has turned fifty he begins to suffer
for the unwisdom of former years. Marryat, unfortunately, had never given
himself any quarter. He had spared himself no burden a man can lay upon
his strength. He had played and worked to excess, had lived in a whirl of
nervous excitement, had spent beyond his means in constitution as well
as in purse. If he had not spent his summer while it was May--at least
he had run through it far too soon. Langham, which might have given him
rest, was only the scene of more nervous excitement, more strenuous work.
In 1847 the end began. In August of that year he speaks, in a letter to
his sister, of having recently ruptured two blood vessels. The following
letter shows that the accident occurred in London, but Marryat returned
to Langham, and remained there till the want of medical advice likely
to inspire more confidence than a country doctor’s drove him to London
again. He remained at his mother’s house at Wimbledon for two months, and
from it wrote to Lord Auckland, then at the Admiralty, on December 14th.
“MY LORD,--When I had the honour of an audience with you, in July
last, your lordship’s reception was so mortifying to me that, from
excitement and annoyance, after I left you I ruptured a blood
vessel, which has now for nearly five months laid me on a bed of
sickness.
“I will pass over much that irritated and vexed me, and refer to
one point only. When I pointed out to your lordship the repeated
marks of approbation awarded to Captain Chads--and the neglect with
which my applications had been received by the Admiralty during so
long a period of application--your reply was ‘That you could not
admit such parallels to be drawn, as Captain Chads was a highly
distinguished officer,’ thereby implying that my claims were not to
be considered in the same light.
“I trust to be able to prove to your lordship that I was justified
in pointing out the difference in the treatment of Captain Chads
and myself. The fact is that there are no two officers who have
so completely run neck and neck in the service, if I may use
the expression. If your lordship will be pleased to examine our
respective services, previous to the Burmah War, I trust that you
will admit that mine have been as creditable as those of that
officer; and I may here take the liberty of pointing out to your
lordship that Sir G. Cockburn thought proper to make a special
mention relative to both our services, and of which your lordship
may not be aware.
“During the Burmah War Captain Chads and I both held the command
of a very large force for several months--both were promoted on
the same day, and both received the honour of the Order of the
Bath--and, on the thanks of Government being voted in the House of
Commons to the officers, and on Sir Joseph York, who was a great
friend of Captain Chads, proposing that he should be particularly
mentioned by name, Sir G. Cockburn rose and said that it would be
the height of injustice to mention that officer without mentioning
me.
“I trust the above statement will satisfy your lordship that I
was not so much to blame when I drew the comparison between our
respective treatment--Captain Chads having hoisted his commodore’s
pennant in India, having been since appointed to the _Excellent_,
and lately received the good service pension; while I have applied
in vain for employment, and have met with a reception which I have
not deserved.
“And now, my lord, apologizing for the length of this letter, allow
me to state the chief cause of my addressing you. It is not to
renew my applications for employment--for which my present state
of health has totally unfitted me--it is, that my recovery has
been much retarded by a feeling that your lordship could not have
departed from your usual courtesy in your reception of me as you
did, if it was not that some misrepresentations of my character had
been made to you. This has weighed heavily upon me; and I entreat
your lordship will let me know if such has been the case, and that
you will give me an opportunity of justifying myself--which I
feel assured that I can do--as I never yet have departed from the
conduct of an officer and a gentleman. I am the more anxious upon
this point, as, since the total wreck of West India property, I
shall have little to leave my children but a good name, which, on
their account, becomes doubly precious. I have the honour, &c.,
“F. MARRYAT.”
I have quoted this melancholy but not altogether unmanly letter at full
for the light it throws on Marryat’s last years. It is clear that when
the ruin of West Indian property had begun to embarrass him, he had
striven to return to active service. The beginning of the letter proves
that in the middle of 1847 his nerve was already gone. At last he was no
longer able to bear the strain of that passion and determination of which
his daughter speaks. When crossed by a First Lord of the Admiralty, with
whom he could not give way to an explosion of rage, the effort required
to control himself was too much for a man worn in health, and accustomed
for many years past to give his feelings unchecked course. The letter
may also stand as proof that Marryat’s reputation as a naval officer was
dear to him. As to the merits of the dispute there is no evidence to form
an opinion. Lord Auckland, in a temperate letter, replied that he had no
recollection of what had passed at the time, but that he certainly could
have had no intention of wounding so distinguished an officer as Captain
Marryat. The letter ended with the agreeable information that a good
service pension had been conferred on him. Heat and disappointment on the
one side, and perhaps a little dry official formality on the other--a
thing which those who deal with Government officials should learn to take
for granted--will doubtless account for the trouble.
From this time forward Marryat’s remnant of life was filled with flights
in search of health, and with every sorrow. From Wimbledon he went
to Hastings, in the vain hope that a milder climate would give him a
chance of recovery. For a time he seemed to improve, but it was a mere
flicker. Whatever chance of recovery he had was utterly destroyed by
the terrible blow which fell on him at the end of the year. His son,
Lieutenant Frederick Marryat, was lost in the wreck of the _Avenger_ in
the Mediterranean. The _Avenger_, one of the first steamers in the navy,
was steered on a reef between Galita and the mainland, during the night.
She was under steam and sail at the time, and struck so heavily that in
a very few minutes she was a complete wreck, with the sea breaking over
her. Frederick Marryat was below when the vessel struck. In the confusion
which followed, he was seen, by one of the few survivors, in the waist
of the ship, endeavouring to keep the men steady, and clear away the
boats. But the _Avenger_ broke up fast; the funnel and main-mast fell
on the group in which Marryat stood, crushing some and hurling others
overboard, where they were swept away in the sea that was then running.
By one death or the other he perished, and the tragedy broke his father’s
heart. The young man had been wild and extravagant--a source of expense
and anxiety to his father. He had been a midshipman of the wild type, and
as a young lieutenant had been unsettled, eager to get on shore and find
some work more agreeable and more lucrative than a naval officer’s. But
if he had the faults--or rather let us say the weaknesses--of the seaman,
he also had his finer qualities. He was a gallant and good-hearted
young fellow. A letter of his father’s, written two years or so before
the wreck, speaks of him as turning up from the China station full of
life and spirit, lighting up the house at Langham. In his then state
of weakness it must have been a killing blow to the father to hear of
the son’s death, under circumstances of which no man was better able to
appreciate the horror than himself. Marryat bore the blow stoutly, for he
too had the “qualities of his defects,” and as he was passionate so was
he courageous.
From Hastings, which he naturally felt had done him no good, he moved
to Brighton for a month. It seemed for a moment as if the danger was
past, and Dickens, among others, wrote to congratulate him on his
recovery. But, in truth, the case was a hopeless one. From Brighton he
returned to London for the last time to consult with the doctors. When
he re-entered the outer room in which several of his family were waiting
to hear the result, he had to tell them that he had been condemned.
“They say,” he reported, “that in six months I shall be numbered with my
forefathers.” He announced the decision, Mrs. Ross Church tells us, with
an “undisturbed and half-smiling countenance,” and we can easily believe
it, for, leaving his natural bravery out of the question, life can have
had no temptation for him if it was to be lived under the constant threat
of such a disease as menaced him.
From London Marryat moved to Langham, and there waited for death all
through the summer of 1848. It came at last through sheer weakness, and
apparently with little or no pain. Ruptures of blood vessels could only
be prevented by rigid abstinence from food. He speaks in the last letter
he wrote--in at least the last that is printed--of living for days on
lemonade till he “was reduced to a little above nothing.” The illness
and the remedy were alike fatal, and between the two he was gradually
reduced to extinction. During the summer days he lay in the drawing-room
of the house at Langham, hearing his daughters read aloud to him, till
his growing weakness brought on delirium. To the last he continued to
dictate pages of incoherent talk, much as Sir Walter Scott had written
mechanically long after his intellect was gone. He loved to have flowers
brought him to the end. Finally, after he had long been unconscious
between weakness and doses of morphia, he expired in perfect quiet just
about dawn on August 9, 1848.
* * * * *
It ought to be unnecessary for me to add much on the character of Captain
Marryat. Although our knowledge of him is fragmentary, it is my fault if
enough has not been said in these pages to show what sort of man he must
have been. It is tolerably clear that he was passionate, ready to think
that he did well to be angry, and that anger was its own justification.
Passionately eager to enjoy he must have been, and not wise in seeking
enjoyment. It must be remembered, however, that he was trained in the
navy in a wild time, when men repaid themselves for such hardships as
the naval officer of to-day never undergoes, by excesses of which he
would be incapable. Then Marryat fell into the literary and semi-literary
life of London at a time when it was partly honestly, partly out of mere
silly pose, dissipated and Bohemian. His wealth was the means of throwing
him among a hard living set. Among them, his friends, doubtless, helped
him to get rid of his money inherited and earned. He was the fast and
hard living stamp of man whom the Bohemian literary gentlemen professed
to admire, and he paid for his genuineness. In such a world the ardent
natures wore themselves out, while the _poseur_ and the humbug escaped.
But if Marryat wasted his substance and hastened his death by excesses,
he seems to have been generous and good to those around him. To his
younger children he was kind, and if his wife fell out of his life (she
is not mentioned as having been present at Langham), there is nothing to
show that it was for reasons discreditable to him, or indeed to either of
them. If he was one of those who are mainly their own enemies, at least
he did not belong to the worst rank of a very noxious class of persons.
That he was a brave man and a good officer beyond question.
As a writer Captain Marryat has never--as I began this little book
by saying--been quite fairly treated. There has always been more or
less a suspicion that an _Athenæum_ writer, who described him as a
quarter-deck captain who defied critics, and trifled with the public,
writing carelessly, and not even good English, taking it for granted
that the public was to read just what he chose to write, was stating the
facts. He has never been recognized as one of the front rank of English
novelists. Macaulay only mentions him as one among several writers on
America. Carlyle’s savage “slate” of him is unjust to a degree which can
only be palliated by the fact that it was founded on a hasty reading
of his books in the evil days after the loss of the manuscript of the
French Revolution. At that time everything was looking more spectral to
Carlyle than usual. Thackeray was just to him indeed, but Thackeray was
exceptionally large-minded and fair. Yet I do not know what reason there
is to exclude Marryat from the front rank which would not also exclude
some whom we habitually put there. To rank him with Fielding, with Jane
Austen, Thackeray or Richardson, would be absurd, but I see no reason why
he should not stand with Smollett. He might stand a little below him for
“Humphrey Clinker’s” sake, but not very far. Except Sir Walter Scott, no
man can be read over a longer period of life. He may be enjoyed at school
and for ever afterwards. I doubt whether many boys have delighted in “Tom
Jones.” Did anybody, to take the other end of life, ever experience, on
coming back to “Peter Simple” or “Mr. Midshipman Easy,” that shock which
is produced by a mature re-reading of, say, “Zanoni”? I imagine not.
There must be a great vitality, a genuine truth, in the writer who can
stand this test, and stand it so long. That Marryat was to some extent
a boyish writer is undeniable, and it seems to me to be the secret of
his enduring popularity. His books revive in one the exact kind of
pleasure one felt in reading them in one’s teens. We may re-read some
writers who pleased then, and remember the pleasure, and regret it can
be felt no longer. Others one re-reads with ever new pleasure, but they
satisfy for reasons not felt in early days. We see more in them and ever
more. But with Marryat it is different. He pleases for the same causes
always, which is surely as much as to say that he is unique of his kind.
More than any other man he made what was written for boys and children
literature. He was the best of his class, and that alone entitles him to
a high place. After all, a man can do no more than be the best of his
order. Whoever is that is surely fairly entitled to be called a Great
Writer. Whether that title is to be grudged him or not, he is assuredly
the friend of all who read with a simple and healthy taste. No man has
given more honest pleasure, more wholesome stimulus to youth; few have
given more hearty fun to older readers. If we do not think of him as
“great,” a word of which we might indeed be more chary than we are,
at least we can think of him as kindly, as sound, as manly--and it is
possible to make a stir with one’s pen and be none of those three things.
THE END.
INDEX.
A.
Almeria Bay, Action in, 32-34
America, Books about, 100
America, Marryat’s visit to, 98-113
Auckland, Lord, Letter to, 150-152;
his answer, 153
_Avenger_, Loss of, 153, 154
B.
Babbage, 14, 15
Basque roads, Action in, 37-40
Burmah, War in, 51-55
C.
Canada, Revolt in, 111, 112
_Caroline_, Affair of the, 106
“Children of New Forest, The,” 146, 147
Chucks, Mr., 96
Cochrane, Lord, Captain of _Impérieuse_, his character, 19-21;
in Basque roads, 37-40;
end of service, 40
Collingwood, Admiral, Marryat asked to write life of, 143
Continent, English on the, 67, 68
D.
Drew, Captain, _see_ _Caroline_
Dundonald, Earl of, _see_ Cochrane
F.
_Fraser’s Magazine_, Marryat and, 127-131
G.
Giliano, Pasquil, fight with, 27, 28
I.
_Impérieuse_, frigate, 17;
Marryat’s account of her service, 23, 24;
sent hurriedly to sea, 25, 26;
her cruises, 27-40
Irving, Washington, quoted, 84, 121
L.
Langham, Marryat’s life at, 65, 132-134, 136-142
“Little Savage, The,” 147
M.
Marryat, Frederick, born, 11;
his family, 11-12;
school-life, 12-15;
goes to sea, 16;
appointed to _Impérieuse_, 17;
serves in her, 17-40;
at Walcheren, 40;
in _Victorious_, 40;
_Centaur_, 40;
_Atlas_, 41;
_Æolus_, 41;
_L’Espiègle_, 41;
_Newcastle_, 41;
a Lieutenant and Commander, 41;
breaks blood-vessel, 41;
saves life, 43;
cuts away main-yard of _Æolus_, 43;
his wound, 45;
goes on Continent, 46;
marriage, 47;
command of _Beaver_, 47;
St. Helena, and death of Napoleon, 47;
exchange to the _Rosario_, 48;
service in Channel, 48;
Smugglers, 49;
appointed to _Larne_, 51;
service in Burmah, 51-54;
Post-captain, and C.B., 55;
_Ariadne_, 55;
begins writing, 55;
equerry to Duke of Sussex, 56;
resigns command, 56;
begins literary life, 58;
expensive habits, 59;
_Metropolitan Magazine_, 60;
letter to Bentley, 60-61;
editor of _Metropolitan Magazine_, 61-62;
first books, 62;
stands for Parliament, 63;
at Brighton, 64;
hard work in 1834, 64;
Langham, 65;
letter about lawsuit, 65;
goes to Continent, 66;
his work on, 66;
resigns editorship, 66;
writes for _New Monthly Magazine_, 67;
stories of Marryat, 69-70;
letter to his mother, 71-72;
starts for America, 72;
his literary work between 1832 and 1837, 73-97;
his speedy success, 74;
his earnings, 75;
quarrels with publisher, 75;
letter to publisher, 76-77;
“Frank Mildmay,” his account of, 79-80;
account and criticism of book, 81-82;
Marryat as a story-writer, 83;
truth of his pictures of sea-life, 84;
his story-telling faculty, 85;
his style, 86;
quotation from “Peter Simple,” 87-91;
his faculty of construction, 91, 92;
his fun, 92;
quotation from “Mr. Midshipman Easy,” 94-96;
Marryat’s portraits, 97;
his visit to America, 98;
at New York, 100-101;
letter to his mother from America, 101-105;
visit to Canada, 106;
affair of _Caroline_, 106;
disturbance about, 106-109;
letter to mother, 109-111;
serves during Canadian rising, 112;
return to England, 113;
Marryat’s money matters, 114-115;
life in London, 116-117;
ill health, 118;
his work from 1837 to 1843, 120-127;
quarrel with Fraser, 128-131;
goes to Langham, 132;
Marryat as a farmer, 135;
his life at Langham, 136-142;
his children, 138, 139;
fondness for animals, 140;
his labourers, 141;
his work at Langham, 143;
beginning of fatal illness, 149;
his personal appearance, 149;
letter to Lord Auckland, 150-152;
his good-service pension, 153;
at Hastings, 153;
at Brighton, 154;
return to Langham, 155;
death of Captain Marryat, 157;
his personal character, 156-157;
his place in literature, 157-159
Marryat, Joseph, M.P., Marryat’s father, 11
Marryat, Lieutenant F., Marryat’s son, his death, 154
“Masterman Ready,” 124-127
_Metropolitan Magazine_, 60, 61, 66
“Mildmay, Frank,” 43, 79-82
“Mission, The,” 144, 145, 146
N.
Naval war in 1806, 17, 18
P.
“Percival Keene,” 124
“Phantom Ship, The,” 122, 123
Pierce, Captain J., 108
“Poor Jack,” 123
“Poacher, The,” 124
“Privateersman, The,” 147
R.
Ross Church, Mrs., Marryat’s daughter, quoted, 11, 57, 68, 75,
115, 133, 136, 138-140
S.
Seagrave, Tommy, 126
V.
“Violet, Monsieur,” 144
W.
William IV., story of, 56, 57
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BY
JOHN P. ANDERSON
(_British Museum_).
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One of the “Handy-Volume Marryat” series.
The Pacha of Many Tales. 3 vols. London, 1835, 12mo.
The Pacha of Many Tales. Another edition. Paris, 1835, 8vo.
---- Another edition. London, 1838, 8vo.
No. lxviii. of the “Standard Novels.”
---- New edition. London, 1856, 8vo.
---- Author’s edition. London [1874], 8vo.
---- Another edition. With illustrations. London, 1873, 8vo.
---- Another edition. London [1880], 8vo.
One of the “Handy-Volume Marryat” series.
Percival Keene. 3 vols. London, 1842, 12mo.
---- Another edition. London, 1848, 8vo.
No. cxiii. of the “Standard Novels.”
---- New edition, with a Memoir of the Author. London, 1857, 8vo.
One of the series entitled “Railway Library.”
---- Another edition. With illustrations. London [1873], 8vo.
---- New edition. London [1875], 8vo.
---- Another edition. With a Memoir of the Author. London [1880], 16mo.
One of the “Handy-Volume Marryat” series.
Peter Simple. 3 vols. London, 1834, 12mo.
---- Another edition. London, 1838, 8vo.
No. lxii. of the “Standard Novels.”
---- Another edition. London, 1856, 8vo.
---- Another edition. With illustrations. London, 1870, 8vo.
---- Another edition. With illustrations. London, 1873, 8vo.
Peter Simple. Author’s edition, complete. London [1874], 8vo.
---- Another edition. London, Guildford [printed 1876], 8vo.
---- Another edition. London, Halifax [printed 1878], 8vo.
---- Another edition. London [1880], 16mo.
One of the “Handy-Volume Marryat” series.
---- Another edition. London [1881], 8vo.
One of “Ward and Lock’s Standard Novels.”
The Phantom Ship. 3 vols. London, 1839, 12mo.
---- Another edition. London, 1847, 8vo.
---- Another edition. London, 1849, 8vo.
---- Another edition. London, 1856, 8vo.
---- Another edition. With illustrations. London, 1874, 8vo.
---- Another edition. London [1880], 16mo.
One of the “Handy-Volume Marryat” series.
The Pirate and the Three Cutters. Illustrated with engravings from
drawings by C. Stanfield. London, 1836, 4to.
---- Another edition. With engravings by Stanfield. London, 1848, 8vo.
---- New edition. (_Bohn’s Illustrated Library._) London, 1849, 8vo.
---- Another edition. With a Memoir of the Author, etc. London, Beccles
[printed 1877], 8vo.
---- Another edition. London [1880], 8vo.
---- Another edition. London [1880], 16mo.
One of the “Handy-Volume Marryat” series.
The Pirate and the Three Cutters. Another edition. With illustrations.
London [1886], 8vo.
Poor Jack. With illustrations by C. Stanfield. London, 1840, 8vo.
---- Another edition. London, 1880, 8vo.
---- Another edition. London [1883], 8vo.
One of the series of “Notable Novels.”
---- Another edition. With illustrations by C. Stanfield. London, 1883,
8vo.
The Privateer’s Man, one hundred years ago. 2 vols. London, 1846, 8vo.
---- Another edition. London, 1853, 8vo.
---- Another edition. 2 vols. London, 1854, 8vo.
---- Another edition. London, 1856, 8vo.
---- The Privateersman. Adventures by sea and land, in civil and savage
life, one hundred years ago. (_Bohn’s Illustrated Library._) London,
1860, 8vo.
Rattlin the Reefer. London, 1838, 8vo.
No. lxix. of the “Standard Novels.”
---- Another edition. London, 1856, 16mo.
---- Another edition. With illustrations. London, 1873, 8vo.
---- Another edition. London [1875], 8vo.
---- Another edition. Edited [or rather written] by Captain Marryat.
[“Handy-Volume Marryat” edition.] London [1880], 16mo.
The Settlers in Canada. 2 vols. London, 1844, 8vo.
The Settlers in Canada. Another edition. London, 1854, 12mo.
---- Another edition. London, 1855, 12mo.
---- New edition. With illustrations by Gilbert and Dalziel. London,
1860, 8vo.
Part of “Bohn’s Illustrated Library.”
---- Another edition. London [1886], 8vo.
---- Another edition. London [1887], 8vo.
Snarleyyow; or, the Dog Fiend. 3 vols. London, 1837, 12mo.
---- Another edition. Paris, 1837, 8vo.
---- Another edition. London, 1847, 8vo.
No. cvii. of the “Standard Novels.”
---- Another edition. London, 1856, 12mo.
---- The Dog Fiend; or, Snarleyyow. London, 1857, 8vo.
One of the series entitled “Railway Library.”
---- Another edition. With illustrations. London, New York, 1873, 8vo.
---- Another edition. [Handy-Volume Marryat.] London [1880], 8vo.
Suggestions for the Abolition of the present System of Impressment in the
Naval Service. London, 1822, 8vo.
Valerie, an Autobiography. 2 vols. London, 1849, 12mo.
---- Another edition. With illustrations. London [1873], 8vo.
---- Another edition. London, 1852, 16mo.
---- Author’s Copyright edition. London [1875], 8vo.
Valerie, an Autobiography. Another edition. London [1880], 16mo.
One of the “Handy-Volume Marryat” Series.
II. APPENDIX.
BIOGRAPHY, CRITICISM, ETC.
Cary, T. G.--Letter to a lady in France on the supposed failure of a
National Bank … with answers to enquiries concerning the books of Captain
Marryat and Mr. Dickens. Boston [U.S.], 1843, 8vo.
---- Second edition. Boston [U.S.], 1844, 8vo.
Marryat, Florence.--Life and Letters of Captain Marryat. 2 vols. London,
1872, 8vo.
Marryat, Frederick.--A Reply to Captain Marryat’s statements relative to
the coloured West Indians, in his work entitled, “A Diary in America.”
[Consisting of letters which appeared in the “St. George’s Chronicle.”]
London, 1840, 8vo.
Marshall, John.--Royal Naval Biography. 4 vols. London, 1823-35, 8vo.
Frederick Marryat, vol. iii., pp. 261-270.
Poe, Edgar A.--The Literati, etc. New York, 1850, 8vo.
Frederick Marryat, pp. 456-460.
MAGAZINE ARTICLES.
Marryat, Frederick.--New Monthly Magazine, vol. 48, 1836, pp.
228-232.--Bentley’s Miscellany (with portrait), by C. Whitehead, vol. 24,
1848, pp. 524-530; same article, Eclectic Magazine, vol. 16, 1849, pp.
135-139, and Littell’s Living Age, vol. 19, pp. 540-543.--Temple Bar,
vol. 37, 1873, pp. 100-106.--London Society, by T. H. S. Escott, vol. 23,
1873, pp. 34-44.
---- _and his Diary_. Southern Literary Messenger, vol. 7, 1841, pp.
253-276.
---- _at Langham_. Cornhill Magazine, vol. 16, 1867, pp. 149-161.
---- _Life and Letters of_. Chambers’s Journal, 1872, pp. 691-695.
---- _Midshipman Easy_. Monthly Review, vol. 3 N.S., 1836, pp. 211-223.
---- _Newton Forster_. Westminster Review, vol. 16, 1832, pp. 390-394.
---- _Novels_. Fraser’s Magazine, vol. 17, 1838, pp. 571-577.
---- _Percival Keene_. Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 9 N.S., 1842, pp.
670-680,--Monthly Review, vol. 3 N.S., 1842, pp. 213-223.
---- _Sea Novels_. Dublin University Magazine, vol. 47, 1856, pp.
294-308; same article, Eclectic Magazine, vol. 38, pp. 46-60.--Cornhill
Magazine, by J. Hannay, vol. 27, 1873, pp. 170-190; same article,
Littell’s Living Age, vol. 116, pp. 676-689, and Eclectic Magazine, vol.
17 N.S., pp. 464-478.
---- _Settlers in Canada_. Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 11, 1844, pp.
807, 808.
---- _Snarleyyow_. Dublin University Magazine, vol. 10, 1837, pp.
325-338.
III. CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS.
Suggestions for the abolition of
the present system of Impressment
in the Naval Service 1822
Adventures of a Naval Officer; or,
Frank Mildmay 1829
The King’s Own 1830
Newton Forster 1832
Peter Simple 1834
Jacob Faithful 1834
Pacha of Many Tales 1835
Mr. Midshipman Easy 1836
Japhet in Search of a Father 1836
Pirate and the Three Cutters 1836
Code of Signals 1837
Snarleyyow; or, the Dog Fiend 1837
Rattlin the Reefer 1838
Phantom Ship 1839
Diary in America 1839
Olla Podrida 1840
Poor Jack 1840
Masterman Ready 1841
Joseph Rushbrook; or, The Poacher 1841
Percival Keene 1842
Narrative of the Travels and
Adventures of Monsieur Violet 1843
Settlers in Canada 1844
The Mission; or, Scenes in Africa 1845
Privateer’s Man 1846
Children of the New Forest 1847
The Little Savage 1848-49
Valerie 1849
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63 SOUTHEY. With Portrait.
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67 HEINE. With Portrait.
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