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The Struggle for Sea Power. By B. Synge. (W. Blackwood

and Sons. is. 9d.)—This is the fourth part of an excellent series entitled "The Story of the World," and intended for the" Children of the British Empire." It takes in some sixty years from the career of Clive down to the fall of Napoleon. The great sea-fights of the last decade of the eighteenth and the first decade of the nineteenth centuries form, of course, a prominent feature in it. The story has to be greatly compressed, but the author has done well in telling a few things in detail rather than many things in outline, and the work, which is well printed and suitably illustrated, is not unworthy of its great subject.

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