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Flag and Fleet. By William Wood. (Macmillan. 3s. net,)— This

very readable sketch of.the history of the British Navy up to the final scuttling of the interned High Sea Fleet at Scapa has been written by a Canadian author for Canadian children.- Colonel Wood's object is to drive home the lesson that, as Lord Beatty says in his Preface, " as an Empire we came into being by the Sea and that we cannot exist without the Sea." The little book is well written and admirably illustrated. There is a lucid account of Jutland, from Lord Jellicoe's despatch, and there is a chapter on the `17 '-boat campaign. British children, too, would, we think, be interested in Colonel Wood's book