• Sea Rescue by Gardner Soule (Macrae Smith Company, Philadelphia) is written by a journalist and brings an urgent, exciting interest to a wide range of dramatic sea stories. Ranging from the recovery of splashed-down spacemen to broken tankers and solitary fishermen, there is something of vital interest for anyone who knows or wishes to know the meaning of disaster at sea. The author has included several chapters dealing with the Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution and shows a picture of the first American life-boat donated by the British organization in 1871. A chapter on the recovery of the H-bomb from the sea bed off Palomares gives some indication of the problems which have to be faced today and of the highly sophisticated craft and equipment in use..