E. O. Scott This year the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company celebrates the hundredth year of its existence, and in connection therewith a history of that century has been written by Boyd Cable, and published by Ivor Nicholsoa & Watson, London. The com pany was in existence before that time, but the author has taken the one hundred years from August 22, 1837 as the subject of his absorbingly interesting book. In 1815 Mr. Brodie McGhie Willcox founded the business which later became that of Willcox and Anderson, The latter had joined him in that year as a clerk. Twenty-two years later on the date mentioned above a contract was
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