17 MAY 1946, Page 24

IT is likely that this reprint, all royalties from which

are to be devoted to the Navy League's Sea Cadet Corps appeal, will attract a new generation of readers to one of the most remarkable bboks appearing in any list of standard classics. It is the story of a voyage from Boston round the Horn to California and back a hundred years ago. It is not just another nineteenth-century sea story, all typhoons and evangelism, but a true account of a sailor's life at sea--Clear, hard and honest. Nobody who has not yet read it 'can fully; know the electric effect of a plain story told in plain language.