The Versonal Experiences of Vortyfive Officers and Men of the British Fleet. Edited by H. W. Fawcett, R. N., and G. W. W. Hooper, R. London: MacMillan & Ca., 21/-
We believe there is something of a slump in Looks about the war but we do not think this can ever apply to the naval side of it and certainly there will be a big demand for The Fighting at Jutland in its abridged] condition. Although the book costs guinea, it is well worth it.
The editors have done their work remarkably well, they have not bothered the reader with complicate ed accounts of naval strategy, yet the different descriptions are so arranged, that the successive phases of this great fight can be followed with case and a few Siseful diagrams explain very clearly how the different sections of the British and German fleets cama into action. The narratives from first to last are extraordinarily graphic, for the most part simply a report of what the writer has seen, told in almost fter-of-fact language, and as id as such artless reports almost. invariably are. Of such is Petty Officer Francis's account of the blowing up of the ill-fated Queva Mary, every word of which is invaluable. Two things ' strike in this description, first, -though this is characteristic the British Navy,—that the writer appears to have no thought for himself, but only' for the fine fellows who perished around ium. Secondly, that the only injury he suffered, and for a time it was a very serious one, was from the oil on the surface of the water after the ship had gone down, which very neatly blinded him.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.