22 JANUARY 1887, Page 23

Monsters of the Deep. (Nelson and Sons.)—an this little volume

we have collected a number of accounts, more or less authentic—or shall we say authenticated ?—of great marine animals. We read about the sea-serpent", as seen by the ' Daadalus,' by the Pauline,' and by the ' Osborne ' (though, indeed, the last, as described by the officers of the Queen's yacht, could not have been a snake). And we have also described the gigantic cuttle-fishes, &c., which have been seen or captured. The writer of the book seems to keep a judicious mean between scepticism and credulity.