Moby Dick. By Herman Melville. Abridged by A. E. W.
Blake. (Cape. 78. 6d.) Tins is a new edition for boys of Herman Melville's story. The book is attractively produced, well printed and illustrated by a master of the art, Mr; Rowland Hilder. His pictures are each and all delightful, but One in particular, a picture of the solitary spout of a sperm whale, rising in the moonlight from the sea in a white feathery jet, is a little marvel of uncanny suggestion. Of the immortal story itself it is not necessary to say much, except that in this abridged edition it loses nothing except redundancy and unessentials. The story treats of the now extinct whale fishery which used to be centred at Nan- tucket, in the State of New York, and the adventures of the ship, the Pequod,' in her search for the white whale, Moby Dick. The whole husiness of whale fishing is described in the most entrancing detail and would appeal to anyone from the age of ten upwards.
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