11 DECEMBER 1926, Page 20

The good old yarn of the " Marie Celeste "

is one of the many stories that Mr. Elliott O'Donnell tells us in Strange Sea Mysteries (Bodley Head. 8s. 6d.). We thought that this ancient enigma had at last found a definite explanation, but the author gives us several solutions, and we are not prepared to say which is correct. There is a very credible chapter on " Sea Serpents," and we agree with the author that creatures even more gigantic and appalling than these described might well come out of the deep we so little know. This book will enliven many a dinner-hour at sea.