CURRENT LITERATURE.
SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.)
The Way They Have in the Navy. By F. T. Bullen. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 1s.)—Mr. Bullen has collected in this little volume the fascinating studies which he contributed to the Morning Leader during the Naval Manceuvres. We shall not forestall the reader's pleasure by a description of the book, but we recbmmend it most heartily, and without any misgiving as to its reception by all Englishmen, Scotchmen, and Irishmen who care for their ships and the men who man them. There is only one gloomy note in Mr. Bullen's book. It concerns a subject often touched on in these columns,—the engine•room difficulty. Mr. Bullen handles the matter with taste and judgment, but he brings out with great distinctness how extremely important the matter is. Unless the engineering department can be made popular with all those who are concerned with it there must be a weak spot in the Navy.
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