19 OCTOBER 1907, Page 23

Modern Going to Sea. By Commander J. Maenab, R.N.R. (George

Philip and Son. Is. 6d. net.)—Commander Maznab gives some practical advice to the parents of intending sailors and to the lads themselves. He tells them about shipping firms, of whom he gives a catalogue, with the terms they offer; about outfit, about life on shipboard, about sojourn in foreign ports; about health and diet—eat bananas and avoid pineapples is one of his counsels—and about many other things of which knowledge is desirable. He specifies things which the lad ought to do,. and other things which he should avoid. Above all others, he emphatically warns him—" Don't desert." A most useful book this, we should say, as far as a, critic, necessarily viewing the subject from outside, can judge.