STRANGE ADVENTURES OF THE SEA. By J. G. Lockett. (Philip
Allan and Co. 8s. 6d.) STRANGE ADVENTURES OF THE SEA. By J. G. Lockett. (Philip Allan and Co. 8s. 6d.)
THESE are twelve tales of adventure, ranging from Elizabethan times when John Fox escaped' with 280' slaves from's galley in the port of Alexandria, down to the latest epic of the sea, the boats of the "Trevessa.' Pirates, of course, figure largely, and the author has chosen the worst of them all, Blackbeard, whose sense of humour must have been extremely trying to his mates. Others stories deal with Mary Ann Talbot, the wreck of the ' Grosvenor,' and the horror of the ` Mary Russell.' All are absorbing and so well told that it is invidious to make a choice. If any father buys this book for his son and so much as glances at it he will not lay it down until he has turned the last page.
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