4 DECEMBER 1920, Page 24

"National Service" of British Merchant Seamen, 1914-1919. By Father Hopkins.

(Routledge. 6s. net.)—Father Hopkins, of the Seamen's and Firemen's Union, describes in this book the friendly relations between the union and the shipowners and the steps by which, during and since the war, the conditions of work on board ship have been improved. The Whitley Council, styled the National Maritime Board, is at work under a consti- tution adopted a year ago. Father Hopkins prints a number of interesting documents in his appendices.