There are two chapters on the French Navy, and the few well. chosen examples of gallantry by the Merchant Navy suffice to remind the reader of a story that has no end, for the Merchant Navy is now faced with a task unequalled in its severity in all its history. Says Mr. Stubbs: reproduced. Fur-illustrations fre-ntly lack either figured dimensions 'a scale without which drawings of nature are comparatively worth-'Where scales are given they are im numerous cases, so poorly printed as to be illegible.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.