The Way of the World at Sea. By W. J.
Gordon. (R.T.S.)— Here we have a practical and instructive account of how sailors work and live. The first chapter is given to the pilot, whose occupation is hardly as well remunerated as one would wish considering the responsibility of the work. It would be more correct to say that some are paid well and some very badly. At Southampton sixteen men divide £5,000 a year ; at Penzance there are nine, and their earnings average £30. The anomalies of the occupation are, in- deed, very strange. Then we have chapters on the great steam- ship companies, on the docks, on the inspection of ships—" in nothing," says Mr. Gordon, " is the beneficent hand of the grand- mother so apparent as in the shipping trade "—on the accommo- dation and fare on board passenger-ships, on the buoying of our coasts, and other matters.
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