Spun Yarns of a Naval Officer. By A. R. Wonham.
(P. S. King and Son. 105. Gd. net.)—Captain Wonham spins some good yarns about his long and varied experience in the Navy. He joined the Servke in 1880, hi the days when steam was still-ass auxiliary to sails and when the first British konclads, the Warrior' and Black Prince,' were building. In 1802-65 he was chasing pirates in Borneo ; in 1873 he was fighting on the Gold Coast, and the next year he was in Fiji. His reminiscences, which are at times somewhat technical, illustrate the evolution of the modern warship. Admiral Jellicoe, then a Lieutenant, was a messmate of his in the ' Monarch ' in 1880, -and distinguished himself by saving the crew of a merchantman -which had run ashore east of Gibraltar. This gallant episode is described by the author, who saw it all.
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