Boh. A Cae 
“LE MONDE DE LA MER” was published in Paris some years 
ago; it was the work of M. Moquin Tandon, but for sundry 
reasons he substituted the pseudonyme of Frédol for his own 
name. The most prominent of those reasons no longer now 
remaining, we are not betraying a trust in divulging the author's 
real name. 
The work is not intended to be exhaustive, but it is an ample 
review of the ocean world. At every point of interest in the 
submarine landscape the pen of the author has lingered. The 
reader is not led into this wondrous world by the hand of rigid 
Science, to find all strittly classified and labelled with a tech- 
nical nomenclature; but the guide, as he passes through the 
mazes of the watery depths, points out everything which can 
arrest the attention: describing the habits and instincts of the 
denizens of the sea, entering into their home-life, examining the 
process of their development, the work assigned to them in the 
great scheme of life, and the connection they have with man. 
Neither does life itself absorb all his attention, for he fails 
not to enter into the physical history of an element so totally 
different to that in which we exist. The waves, the currents, 
the tides, find a place in his description; and, passing north- 
ward, he leads us to the land of silence, where the sea, at the 
touch of the Wintry King, has congealed into fields of ice and 
stately bergs. 
