25 NOVEMBER 1871, Page 3

A correspondence has been going on in the Times about

the pieuvre, the Devil Fish introduced to us by Victor Hugo. Mr. W. A. Lloyd, who has specimens of the fish in the aquarium at the Crystal Palace, is quite angry with the novelist for making it fight out of the water, which it cannot do, and for placing it in Sark, where it does not live ; but ho admits that his own specimens —which are comparatively small, about 2 ft. in diameter sums the arms,—bite his bare leg in the water, and gives a much worse description of the animal in the tropics. It is very wrong, of course, of M. Hugo to take away the character even of cuttle-fish, but still if all the nasty things were dead the world would be all the cleaner.