12 JUNE 1926, Page 28

The Last Cruise of the 'Shanghai.' By F. de Witt

Wells. (Hurst and Blackett. 15s.) Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky of the Norse sagas Showed the way to the author and his crew in taking the' Shanghai,' a small ketch, over the Viking sea track to Newfoundland, where she laid her bones, and nearly theirs. There is a full and interesting account of the . voyage, and the psychological effect of it on the -members of the crew will be of great interest-to inen who sail small ships in deep water. The descriptions of scenery in Iceland and Greenland are very grsiithie, but the author gives us the idea that Battle Harbour, Labrador, is American ; Dr. Grenfell would not agree with him.