X THE SILENT WARFARE OF THE SUBMARINE WORLD STUDIES IN MARINE NATURAL HISTORY XVII FLYING-FISH CATCHING AT BARBADOS XXII THE LOSS OF THE 'ST. GEORGE' An Incident of the Anglo-German War of 19 XXIII THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MERCHANT SERVICE XXV A NINETEENTH-CENTURY JONAH XXVI THE TRAGICAL TALE OF THE BOOMERANG PIG XXVII A DAY ON THE SOLANDER WHALING-GROUND IDYLLS OF THE SEA BY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J. ST. LOE STRACHEY London First printed February 1899 TO Most of these sketches are, by the courtesy of the proprietors, reprinted from the Spectator; the others have appeared in various magazines—the Cornhill, Good Words, Sunday Magazine, Chambers’s Journal, Country Life, National Review, and Pall Mall Gazette. To the proprietors of all these journals my hearty thanks for their kind permission to republish are hereby offered. FRANK T. BULLEN. |