Memories of David, Seventh Earl of Glasgow. Edited by F.
H. Norman. (Edinburgh : W. Brown. 21s. net.)—Lord Glasgow, who died in 1915, entered the Navy in 1846 as a boy of twelve, and served for ten years in sailing-ships before he was appointed at the close of the Crimean War to " H.M. steam frigate ' Tribune ' (31)," which used her propeller mainly for entering or leaving port, and was essentially a sailing-ship. Lord Glasgow's autobiography and journals referring to his early voyages are of interest on this account. One forgets so easily that the Admiralty was very slow to adopt steam-power : yet the subject of this memoir, who saw the Great War begin, had served in a three-docker of a hundred and twenty guns, the Trafalgar.' He was at the Cape in 1852 when the Birkenhead went ashore and sank near Cape Agulhas. He says that the horses and dogs contrived to swim to land through the surf, thick with kelp-weed, and that one officer was saved by clinging to his horse's mane, though most of the men who tried to swim were entangled in the weed and drowned. Lord Glasgow retired from the Navy in 1874. He was Governor of New Zealand from 1892 to 1897. Commander Norman has edited the book with care. It is a pleasant memorial of a worthy man.
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