BOOKMAKING

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: June 26, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Robert Taylor is the retired chief book critic of the

Globe.

The greatest of all British naval victories, the Battle of Trafalgar, was fought on Oct. 21, 1805. Every year since then, Trafalgar Night has been celebrated on the ships of the royal navy, and on that night Patrick O'Brian joins British naval historians at a Garrick Club dinner.

Reading "Patrick O'Brian: Critical Essays and a Bibliography" (Norton) must be not unlike listening to the table talk of the festive historians. The book developed out of a project at the British Library to compile bibliographies and biographical data ...

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