• Professor Ernest Scott, of Melbourne, has made a most
attractive book by collecting the original narratives of those Who took part in Australian Discovery by Sea (Dent, 10s. 6d.). Torres in 1606 passed through the strait to the north of Aus- tralia without sighting Cape York. A Dutch skipper sighted Western Australia in 1616, and Tasman found Tasmania in 1642. But it was reserved for Cook to discover New South Wales in 1770, and for Flinders to circumnavigate Australia in 1803. Professor Scott incidentally gives Tasman's in- structions, substantial portions of Dampier's story, Bligh's own version of the mutiny in the Bounty,' and a short account of Laperouse's voyages-one of many undertaken by able French captains in the South Seas. The volume is well provided with portraits and maps and is both readable and instructive.
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