28 AUGUST 1915, Page 24

This year's edition of Fighting Ships, by Mr. Fred T.

Jane, has reached US (Sampson Low and Co., 21s. net). The Admiralty has decided that the entire section dealing with

the British Navy ninst be omitted from the public edition of the book, but purchasers will be able to obtain the missing pages gratis from the publishers at the end of the war. With regard to the enemy, Mr. Jane says in his preface that "a great deal of money has been expended in an effort to secure odd items of information not generally known"; and that, though it has net been possible to obtain exact information as to the entire progress of the German Navy since the out- break of the war, "in one way and another many interesting details have been acquired."