Sea Power and Freedom. By Gerard Menne& (Skoffington. 10s. 6d.
net.)—Mr. Fiennee's interesting sketch of naval history, and above all of the rise of the British Navy, is addressed not to experts but to the man in the street and the child in the school, and should find a place in every public and school library. In these days the silent work of the Navy is too often forgotten or undervalued, though it is the solid basis of all our successes on land and all our hopes for the future. It is well,therefore, that capable naval critics like Br. Fiennee should address thmwelves to the largest public, and state simply and clearly, as in this book, how and why we secured and have maintained our naval supremacy. Mr. Famines discusses the present war at sea in his teat two chapteni, and explains in his con- clusion the sinister meaning which the Germane attach to the phrase "the freedom of the seas." For them it implies the disappearance of the world's chief defence against their tyranny on land.
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