Whalers and Whaling. 13y -E. Keble • Chatteron. (T. Fisher
Unwin. 12s. 6d.). Steam and the harpoon gun with its bursting charge have taken much of the sport and glamour from whaling ; but the need for hard bitten qualities of nerve and physical stamina in its followers still arises. The author has produced a whaling encyclopaedia : nothing of note from the. birth of the fishery in the sixteenth century -to. the present day has- been- omitted, and the contemporary charts and illustrations are first class. Of all the author's sea books, this seems to us to be the best. He has brought out all the glamour and disillusionment of this sea hunting, with its great gains and losses. It is surprising that with our past splendid record in whaling our present interest should now be so small.
Whaling in the Frozen South. By - A. J. Villiers. (Hurst and Blackett. 21s.) Present day whaling in the Antarctic is vividly described in this book ; the author and ten -other
'Australian lads joined the mother ship in Hobart as labourers, !signing on in blissful ignorance of what was in store for them. The author, being a journalist, has not missed much, and the result is a very readable book full of the life led on the little steam whalers. This book and Mr. Keble Chatterton's give , us a real insight into whaling.
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