16 DECEMBER 1893, Page 24

Under the Sea to the North Pole. By Pierre Mail

(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This story is somewhat after the manner of M. Jules Verne. There is science with a considerable element of the marvellous mixed with it, and there is adventure, not by any MSS= of a commonplace kind. As one might expect, there is a considerable glorification of French things and persons ; nor is the opportunity lost of showing spite against Germany. There is a traitor in the crew, and he is a German chemist. It is really deplorable to see the pettiness of the ways in which the French feeling of resentment shows itself.