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Next come a few books of a more adventurous character.

Select Naval Documents, published by the Cambridge Univer- sity Press, contains enough genuine, full-blooded romance and realism to fit out a dozen stirring adventure-books. We know no book which gives in so small a space such a vivid and breezy impression of the English Navy—its men, its ships and its adventures—from the days of Henry VIII. down to Trafalgar. The other books of this section are travel-books on Spain, India, Peru and the New Hebrides.