Hurricane Hurry: or, The Adventures of a Naval Officer Afloat and on Shore

: By W. H. G. Kingston

The book is about the war between the British and the American Royalists on the one hand, and the American rebels on the other. The author is probably sympathetic to the rebels, but certainly to the cause of Freedom, and he makes his hero, Hurry, sympathetic to their cause, yet always observant of his duty as an officer of the King's Navy. There are the usual fights between ship and ship, or between ship and weather. Hurry falls in love with an American young lady, and the rest of the book contains episodes in which he is in contact with her, though she is the daughter of a Colonel active on the Rebel side.