4 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 10

Watch and Watch ; or, The Decoyed. By William Charles

Met- calfe. (Nisbet and Co.)—T his is a sea story with a very curious plot. The " decoyed" are a party from the ship Albatross,' who are induced by signals of distress to board a vessel which they meet, and find that they have been brought by false pretences. They are wanted to navigate the ship. There has been a mutiny ; the captain has disappeared ; the chief officer has been killed ; the second officer had fallen overboard. Then the captain mysteri- ously reappears, the leader of the mutineers jumps overboard, and there is happiness all round, increased by a long yarn which the captain takes the opportunity of telling.