Sea - Wrack. By F. T. Bullen. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—This
collection of papers is characteristic of Mr. Eullen's best work. There are some very vigorous descriptions of various things in the natural history of the sea. ; one of them, entitled "Armageddon," a great battle between vast hosts of two species of whales, is almost terrifying. It is, indeed, a Gigantomo.chia. Then there are pictures of human life at sea. On the whole, as it would seem, things have improved ;, but the cosmopolitan mixture out of which the British merchant service is manned cannot be said to be a change for the better. Of the narrative papers, perhaps the most Pleasing is that of the starving lad who had a place found for him by a kindly skipper. At one time the boy must have thought it a cruel kindness, for the craft was run into by a steamship. But the next day it was found that the steamship's crew had left it in a panic. The other crew brought it safe into harbour, and received- a handsome salvage, £160 falling to the share of the boy. But the gem of the whole is the story of the generar servant. Jack is truly a "handy man."
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