An Ocean Adventurer. By Walter P. Wright. (Blackie and Son.
2s. 6d.)—An " adventurer" indeed ! Incidents of the most startling kind follow, one after another, with a rapidity that takes away our breath. The old times and the new are alike put under contribution. There is the buried treasure belonging to the times before banks, and the newest implement of destruc- tion, the torpedo which does away with a cruiser in a minute. And in the very presence of this last triumph of civilisation the writer takes us back to very remote times indeed. "For a moment "—the torpedo has just been launched—" I thought the outraged gods had stricken us with blindness." And as if human enemies were not enough for the hero, he is attacked by octopuses. (Note.—If you are likely to encounter this danger have a bottle of nitric acid ready "with a syringe of delicate workmanship.") Our readers will be able to judge by this time of the entertain- ment that they will find in " The Cruise of the 'Orb.' "
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