0 Young World Productions, London, have produced a punch-out model and painting book covering old and new life-boats of R.N.L.I.

interest. Copies are obtainable from Life-boat House, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, price 15p, plus 5p postage. The painting pages ifeature Lukin, Beeching and Greathead's early life-boats, the Grace Darling rescue of survivors from the wrecked Forfarshire in 1838, modern life-boats, including an inshore life-boat, and a helicopter rescuing a man from a disabled yacht.

The punch-out makes up into a 48-foot 6-inch Solent type with, in real life, a steel hull. The model is authentically coloured.

0 Grahame Farr has produced another lifeboat book in the Wreck and Rescue Series put out by D. Bradford Barton Ltd., of Truro, Cornwall. It is Wreck and Rescue on the Dorset Coast: the story of the Dorset lifeboats, price £1.60, and we are pleased to note that the volume is dedicated to Mr. and Mrs. John Francis 'in gratitude for their sterling work on behalf of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society'. Mr. Farr's study covers Lyme Regis, Portland and Weymouth, Kimmeridge and Chapman's Pool, Swanage and Studland and Poole. As usual the book is well supported with photographs, including a dramatic shot of the Weymouth lifeboat Friern Watch approaching the schooner Ardente, from which she saved the crew of four on llth December, 1914. The picture comes from the Eric Latcham Collection. Mr. Farr's latest book is another milestone in the highly informative Wreck and Rescue Series written by this author and covering the south west.

• Against the Sea (Hutchinson Junior Books Ltd., price £1.15), by Douglas Reeman, is another for the Men in Action Series. Mr.

Reeman begins with an account of Thor Heyerdahl's voyage on his balsa raft Kon-Tiki and, after covering an amazing World War II escape story in the East Indies, goes on tomention the exploits of Sir Francis Chichester, Sir Alec Rose, Robin Knox-Johnson and the late Donald Crowhurst. The author has an international reputation for his novels of the sea—but Against the Sea is his first non-fiction book.

• 'The life-boat service', says Len Ortzen in Famous Lifeboat Rescues (Arthur Barker Ltd., price £1.50), 'gets wide publicity when disaster strikes a crew, but less is paid to the many rescues where no lives are lost, although these are accomplished with courage and skill, and usually in conditions of great danger.' The author describes outstanding incidents of lifesaving from a number of R.N.L.I, stations. He starts with Grace Darling of the Fame Islands and mentions other places like Appledore, Ramsgate, Falmouth, Whitby, Ballycotton, Dover, Cromer, Tenby and Southend. There is a chapter on the R.N.L.I.'s contribution at Dunkirk and another on Coxswain Henry Blogg, the Cromer hero. Mr. Ortzen, who has written many books, is the author of Stories of Famous Disasters at Sea.—C.R.E..