"It will be read with eager interest.... The narrative often reads like romance, but the author had too high a sense of probity to palm off fiction for actual personal experience."—_Scotsman._ "A very engrossing story.... It abounds in interesting anecdote and in intelligent observation."—_The Broad Arrow._ "These Memoirs thoroughly justify their publication, and they will be perused by students of military history with considerable advantage as well as keen enjoyment."—_St. James's Gazette._ "'A Prisoner of France' should be in the hands of all young soldiers, for it is a manual of soldierly kindness and fine humanity."—_Vanity Fair._ _In Square Crown 8vo. Printed on Light Paper, with Deckled Edges, and bound in Buckram. Price 6s._ A MIDDY'S RECOLLECTIONS 1853-1860 BY REAR-ADMIRAL THE HONOURABLE VICTOR ALEXANDER MONTAGU _Containing 2 photogravures and 6 other full-page Illustrations._ "Full of interest as illustrating the life of a midshipman afloat in the last days of the wooden Navy, and as recording a much larger and more varied share of war experience than has fallen to the lot of most young officers in these latter days."—_The Times._ "Few officers could have had so much active service crowded into the first few years of their career as the author of these reminiscences."—_Morning Post._ "The life on board ship, the boisterous humour of the gun-room, and the stern discipline of those rough-and-tumble days are described with a sailor's breezy frankness."—_Pall Mall Gazette._ "It will interest all who are fond of exciting incident, quite apart from its personal interest."—_Outlook._ "His descriptions are written with as much freshness and _verve_ as if the events recorded were of quite recent occurrence, and with a sailorly downrightness and infectious good-humour that help to render this extremely interesting volume a welcome exception to the great majority of works of its order with which the book market has lately been flooded."—_The World._ "Breezy, full of cheerfulness, Admiral Montagu lived his boyhood in stirring times, and was a part of them. His record is a piece of pleasant and straightforward work."—_Country Life._ "The book is full of good things from beginning to end."—_Army and Navy Gazette._ "His accounts of active warfare, of pirate-hunting, and shipwreck are exhilarating, and there are many enlightening pages in the book dealing with punishments in the Navy, the leisure hours of a middy's life on board ship, his duties and companionships."—_Daily Mail._ "The book is delightfully frank and breezy, and is one which will be eagerly read."—_Whitehall Review._ "It says a good deal for Admiral Montagu's memory that he has been able to reproduce his impressions of nearly forty years ago so clearly and pleasantly."—_Daily Chronicle._