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pbc MARINE REVIEW. 25 || Splendid Book and aT imely One| Lt. Comd'r Austen M. Knight. 1 OR a Is the title of a book recentl itten By. La : y written by Lieut. Comd'r Austen M. | MODERN | Knight, executive officer of the cruiser Olympia. The title of the volume a > | SEAMANSHIP | could not be more appropriate. Seamanship is as old as the deluge. From century to century, through the connecting link of generations, seamanship has been handed down to us. Until as late as forty years ago seamanship xf was the supreme art of the sea. But changes, wonderful to contemplate, have marked the last half century. The name of the great revolution was steam. Through its agency seamanship lost its old command. 'lt became subordinate to the science of navigation. All existing volumes upon seaman- _ ship speedily became obsolete. But yesterday of unquestioned authority, today they are merely junk. Such Is the moving panorama of the world's progress that its views - appear, like opportunity, but once upon the scene and are gone. How appropriate, : therefore, is its title "Modern Seamanship." It has to do with seamanship as it exists today, when every sea is charted, when even the rise and fall of the tides in every part _.of the world is computed by machinery, when hurricanes can hurl their awful force _ against the ocean liner--not to destroy but merely to check. "The hurricane reached its maximum at twelve and the Kronprinz Wilhelm checked down'"--the dispatches will say. Checked down to what? To 19 knots. Twenty-five years ago there wasn't a steamship afloat that could make 19 knots in the smoothest sea that ever was sailed. This is the seamanship the book deals with. It embraces all, the old and the new, but its great virtue is that it is distinctly modern. : We are in the business of handling books, but when the printer sent us this product of his handiwork, we complimented him. It is a large book but it is superb to the least detail of its 428 pages, to which must be added 136 of the finest and clearest plates we have ever seen. No book has received more favorable notices. Even the daily press, usually as dumb as oysters when a technical volume appears, have devoted columns to it. It has been adopted as a text book at the United States Naval Academy. We should think that every person interested in modern seamanship, in the science of navigation, in the building, equipping and managing of a ship would want it. We shall be glad to send it to anyone. THE PRICE IS $6. . | | THE MARINE REVIEW PUBLISHING CO., 39-41 WADE BUILDING, ".,., 1+» CLEVELAND, O.