We have received Lean's Royal Navy List (Witherby and Co,
7a. 6d.), with its usual quota of information about the personnel of the Navy, and a stock, which we see the editor does his best to increase, of facts about the services of officers, while the list of ships is a record of famous actions. Here is the Victory,' for instance :-
" Defeat of Spanish Armada (flagship of Sir S. Hawkins), 1583. Monk's victory over Dutch, 1666.
Victory over French off La Hogue, 1692.
Hotham's victory over French, 1795.
Jervia's victory over Spanish off Cape St. Vincent, 1797. Trafalgar (flag), 1805."
A list of names no longer borne would be interesting : ' La Topaze,' for instance, and The Fury.'—With this may be mentioned A Chart of the Manceuvre Field, Manoeuvres, 1901 (E. Stanford, ls. 6d.) The soundings are given of the area within which the manoeuvres are to take place, and forts supposed to be proof against attack are marked.
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