22 MARCH 1902, Page 26

In the "Shipping Gazette Library" (Spottiswoode and Co., Is.), we

have a collection of papers reprinted from the Shipping Gazette under the title of The Mercantile Marine in War Tina. These papers deal with many important questions, the proposed establishment of national granaries among them. This is not the opportunity for discussing them. One thing is abundantly clear,—it is impossible to overstate the imperative necessity of a strong Navy.