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Our Fighting Sea Men. By LIONEL YEXLEY.

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Mr. Yexicy has served on the lower deck, and is therefore well qualified from a know- ledge of the actual conditions afloat and ashore to write intimately of the life of a sailorman in the British navy. He is the author of several books, and is, moreover, Editor of The Fleet," and in the latter capacity is kept well informed of all grievances, fancied and real, which influence the life of the bluejacket today. Incident ally, it uccurs to us that never once in the deeply interesting volume, now under notice dues Mr. Yexley refer to "the fighting se

as a bluejacket. He treats bis subject from the sailor's standpoint, and handles it with the most consummate skill; and when he is the advocate of reforms he-is not merely a partisan but a well-versed and reasonable pleader, whose success is all the more marked because of his moderation and abstention from inflammatory phrases such as are likely to prejudice the case of those for whose better treatment he pleads. Whe ther he is dealing with the navy and its dis. cipline historically or with it in its more recent developments, he exhibits that firm grasp of detail which carries conviction to the reader, and we must congratulate the men upon having as their advocate a man of principle so eminently qualified to interest landsman in the righteousness of figust of At one tine in our their contentions. nation'e history, the lat of the sailor on board our warships was so outrageously hard That it will always remain n Barvel how they fought so splendidly and won for Eng. fand the proud title of Mistress of the Seas. But Mr. Yexley shows by quoting cases how our sea men fought better under men like Nelson and Hawke, Hardy and Collingwood, officers who had the genius of command, the art of lending men instead of driving them. Conditions in the navy to-day are undoubtedly better than they were a hundred, or even fifty, years ago; but there is still room for improveraent-perhaps we ought, to say for readjustment, since the naval ship to-day is a different thing and a more complicated affair than the old wooden walls which drove our enemies form the seas, The whole system of discipline, punishments and courts martial, needs overhauling. This could be done, according to Mr. Yexley, with out endangering the efficiency of our ships. Nay. be decis.It absolutely necessary in order to promote efficiency, and he is ready with quotations from men lilee Bosanquet and Beresford as to the value of the personal element in winning battles support all his contentions. The feeding of the sea man has improved in quite recent years, thanks in a measure to the efforts of the author (though he is modest as regards his own share in the agitation), but here also there is room for improvement. The re-arrangement ratings and promotion from the lower to the upper deck are, of course, dealt with in terms of moderation, as well as other matters which Mr. Yexley believes would tend to in- crease keenness and efficiency in the naval service. He has done an excellent · serviës to the navy in writing this book, and as we are in Hongkong most intimately concerned in all matters affecting the navy, and rely upon it mainly for the defence of our Colony from the external attack, it is well that we should interest ourselves in the navy's wel fare, whether we are members of the Navy League or not, by reading such a book and acquiring a closer knowledge of the life our sailors live on board the fine fighting ma- chines we constantly see in our Harbour.

In a Collage Hospital.

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This is a powerfully written novel in which the author professes to reveal a terrible state of affairs in the hospitals and infirmaries of England, if a tithe of what he says is true, than England should be ablaze from end to end, and the "people" demanding the appointment of a Royal Commission to col lect evidence with a view to the framing of a scheme to prevent the continuence of the iniquity. Of course, it is always dangerous to generalize, and we are not inclined to believe that the Rebley Hospital of the coun try is duplicated all over the country. But, on the old adage that there never was suloke without Gre and indeed recalling some things we have been told ourselves by those who were in a position to know-there is, we fear, only too good ground for believ ing that, some of the charges made by Mr. Trelawney are well founded, and that need does exist for a stricter supervision of these public institutions, and some centralised im partial control-exercised by the State, to his preface, the author says the story was re lated to him by a broken-hearted mother whose son died in South Africa during the Boer War. It is a tragic story, with much in it that is sordid and revolting. It has, however, an atmosphere of reality, is well written, and does not contain a dull page.

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With a display of much learning and a keen wit, "An Englishman whose profes sion of nationality, we much distrust makes a clever reply to the pungent satire entlifed "The Perfidious Welshman" from the pen. of Draig.Glas." We had not enjoyed the pleasure of reading the latter, but its scope and pingency may readily be learned and gauged by a perusal of this reply. It covers almost every phase of Welsh national, social, presents the Welsh- and domestic life, and man to us from every point of view. cannot give a better idea of its scope than Note: "It is the purpose of An English the following extract from the "Publishers' man not only to rehabilitate the character of Taffy, but, Incidentally, to show that the Cymrle rare are common descendants with the English people from the aboriginal in- habitants of Great Britain-the Britons' and that, therefore, every charge against the Welsh is, ipso facto, a charge decide for themselves whether the shafts of against the English. Truth-seekers must Draig-Glas satire are successfully shat- tered on an Englishman's shield of truth." We note that "An Engdisliman," places the Taf Mabral in Delhi-a slip of the pen, of course.

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The Cardinal. By NEWTON W. STEWART,

London: Stanley Paul & Co.

The central figure of this spirited romance. is Ottaviano degli Ubaldini of Mugello, Cardinal de Santa Maria Vis Lata, formerly Bishop of Bologna. But into the eventful career of Ariadne, the daughter of the Prince of Nauplios, one of the Isles of Greece. Beautiful in conception and perfect in con. struction, it tells of the schemes of Baldwin, who ruled as Emperor at Constantinople, and his evil genius, Phrastes the Levantine, and deals with the turbulent period' in Italian history when city fought wth city and the Pope Innocent sought to establish himself as the holder of supreme temporal and spiritual power in the civilised world. The Cardinal was a man of strong passions, who sought love in the arms of many com- plaisant beauties regardless of his vows to the Church. Into this life comes Ariadnt, a fugitive from the snares of Phrostes, sold as a slave, soon to become the sweetening in- fluence in the great Cardinal's life. The love is a pure passion, however. Her fair life is never sullied, and, in end, she sacifices herself to what she believes to be the Car. dinal's greatest good. The atmosphere and locat colour of the story are true, there is a quick movement and a wealth of incident picturing the conditions of life in those romantic days, and the author is to be con- gratulated upon revealing a power of im- agination and skill in composition too often iscking in the modern romance.

The France of Joan of Arc. By Lieut.- Col ANDREW C. P. HAGGARD, D. S. O. With photogravure frontispiece and six- teen other illustrations. London: Stanley Paul and Co.

There some few historical figures whose lives will always have a fascination to the reader. Joan of Arc is one of those figures. Colone Haggard performs the task of his tarian and biographer with much, skill, and particularly in the later pages of his interesting volume he carries his reader with him into a violent partisanship of the un- fortunate Maid of Oricans. We must confess, however, that we found it a trifle tedious to peruse the carlier portion of the volume wherein we read of the marching and counter-marching, plots and counterplots of the men and women who were making and marring France when that country was a mere appendage of the English crown. le deals with the discord that prevailed when the Duke of Burgundy was rising to power; with the wild youth and the tragic sudden madness of Charles VI.; with the infidelities of his half Italian wife. Isabeau; with the prolonged and bloody quarrel be- which commenced with the treacherous tween the Armagnacs and the Burgundians, murder of the King's brother by his cousin, the Duke of Burgundy, and was continued by the equally treacherous murder of that Duke by his cousin, the Dauphin of France. We are shown in these pages how it was that Henry V. succeeded in seizing the throne of France, and how the peasant maiden from Bom-Reasy rallied the French and succeeded in firmly seating upon the chivaky, overthrew the English ascendency French throne a prince of whom his mother acknowledged the Illegitimacy. It is terrible picture. Coloned Haggard has to pro in the early days of the fifteenth century, sent of the profligacy and contempt for life and me of his most interesting chapters treats of the devil-worship which made be one of the greatest of the Seigneurs, the possible the terrible child-sacrifices to Satan prototype of Bluebeard. Incidentally, the Church does not come out of the investiga.. tion with any credit, and we are made to marvel once again how it, was possible for the gentle Christ to perpetrate the enormities buman beings claiming to be followers of and humanities of those days in the name

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new earth-i-not-a-new Heaven-may be creatal by Act of Parliament, Johm of Arc was led by some impulse, if not exactly Divine inspiration, to espouse the cause of Charles VII., to become a leader of men-at- arms, and to deal the first check to English arms that was, eventually, to drive our Forchears back to our island fastnesses. Hers was a heroic figure-unlike some of the woman who came into prominence In the French Revolution, and, however much false and inexact, we can still have, sympathy for a woman, a mere slip of a girl,. who suffered so cruelly and who behaved so heroically as to shame the inhuman monsters who put her to death.

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