we Bor's Lire or Apuman Brarre—By Captain Frank i. Shaw. Hutchinfon, London. 1/6.
Landing at Dartmouth in 1684, Davia Beatty started his career as a naval cadet on H.MS, Britannia, without influence, but with a determination to work his way up to whatever position the Navy could offer. his stirring career Beatty never falled to accept an opportunity of adventure, and it was this charac~ teristic with more than a fair share of luck, that carried him through more than forty years service to end First Sea Lord at the Admiralty.
To boys in China, the stirring tale of Beatty's adventures in the relief fof the Legations during the Boxer trouble will be of absorbing interest. After weeks of rough and tumble work, which "make good reading, which the Boxer did his Best to. wipe out the foreign devils, Beatty's was the task to subjugate the native city of Tien sin, He ended up the campaign as a. post-captain at the ge of twenty-nine—the World War only. fourteen years ahead and the Battle of Jutland to be fought. It is an entrancing biography and. is written by a sailor who knows the sea, No better present to a Shanghai Boy between the ages of ten and sixteen could be chosen—no..
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