Captain Canot

Being an account of his career and adventures on the coast, in the interior, on shipboard, and in the West Indies. Written out and edited from the Captain's Journals, Memoranda, and Conversations, by Brantz Mayer. Captain Canot certainly, deserves credit for having delivered "a round, unvarnished tale" to the literary gentleman whose name appears as editor of the present volume. But, notwithstanding that some of the objectionable features of his story have been very nicely varnished over—by Mr Mayer, we presume—we cannot recommend it to the perusal of our readers. Its utility, In our opinion, is doubtful, to say the least, while many of its details are such as no father can or will read aloud to the members of his household; and the hero of it is a tricky, cheating, piratical trader, who, after more than half a lifetime of laborious yet fruitless rascality, finds himself a " stranded wreck," and at last wakes to a glimmering sense of the important truth that "honesty is the beet policy."