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Reviews of The Bridge to France, by Edward N. Hurley; cloth, 328 pages, 5% by 8 inches; published by J. B. Lipping- cott Co. Philadelphia and furnished by Marine Review, Cleveland, for $5.00 postpaid, and in Europe by the Pen- ton Publishing Co. Ltd. Caxton House, London, for 25 shillings. Edward N. Hurley the author of this book was the war time chairman of the United States shipping board and member of the World war debt He has set down in this commission. book in an interesting manner, im- portant historical facts concerning the greatest shipbuilding venture the world has known. It tells the inside story of the operation of the ship- ping board and Emergency Fleet Corp. and those vital facts in the activities of the naval, military, political and economic policy which were bound up with the great work performed under the author’s direction. The history of the shipping board and Emergency Fleet Corp. up to the time Mr. Hurley took charge is brief- ly reviewed. The story is then told of the planning and building of the fabricated steel ships, wooden, com- posite and concrete ships. An ac- count is. given of the building of that tremendous fabricating shipyard at Hog Island and the production of ships there. Many of the phases of the board’s work are fully covered, such as the operation of the fleet which carried troops and supplies abroad, the re- cruiting housing and _ transportation of shipyard workers, making seamen out of landlubbers, protecting ships from submarines, and convoying ships across the Atlantic. The book is profusely illustrated with photographs, war posters, fac- similies of letters and documents of historical interest. In connection with the board’s work the reader is brought in contact with the work and personalities of Wilson, Schwab, Edi- son, Ford, Colby, Hoover, Pershing, Lord Northcliffe, Geddes, House, Dawes, Lord Reading, Foch, Lloyd George, Clemenceau and others with whom the author had dealings. Many incidents of human interest are told. There is an interesting account of Foch and the Germans at Treves, and of the Spa and Brussels conference. Some interesting examples are given of European diplomacy. Events are related concerning the administration of Woodrow Wilson and the launch- 33 Late Books ing of his ploitical career that has never before been published. All in all this book deals in a straight for- ward and interesting manner with the gigantic problems overcome by the shipping board during the pressure and emergency of war. * * x Hero Tales of Our Navy, by George Gibbs; cloth, 303 pages, 5 x 7 inches; published by J. B. Lippincott Co., Phil- adelphia, and furnished by MARINE REVIEW, Cleveland for $2.00 postpaid, and in Europe by the Penton Publish- ing Co., Ltd., Caxton House, London for 10 shillings. net. A merchant marine or a navy to have arrived at any standing or emi- nence must have proud traditions. The fighting qualities and skillful sea- manship of the officers and men of the early American navy are an inspira- tion to those who follow the seas in American ships today. In this book the author gives to the reader by means of fourteen illus- trations drawn by himself, and a clear forceful style, a picture of the many sea fights in which early Americans distinguished themselves. Many bloody and obstinate combats are described in these stories of our naval heroes from the time the first little American built frigate sailed out against an English man-o’-war to the days when the allied battleships patrolled, in friendship and harmony, the North Sea. Names famous in American history appear in these pages, John Paul Jones and Decatur, Stewart and Hull, Jarvis and Farragut. We read of the exploits of the BONHOMME RICH- ARD, the INTREPID and the CONSTITU- TION. Here is painted all the glory of the old navy when the sailor hoisted his top gallant sails and made straight for the enemy, when cruises were long and perilous and the disobedient were only too often “spread-eagled’”’ or forced to ride the gray mare. It is pointed out however, that the mettle of a seaman is just as surely tried in the navy of today and there are heroes in the new navy also. The author pays tribute to the courage of the unnamed and unheralded men of the fishing fleet who experience, as all in the day’s work, the dangers of the Atlantic in storms, darkness and fog. pee eae The Ship Under Sail, by E. Keble Chatterton ; cloth, 224 pages, 6 x 8 inches; published by J. B. Lippincott MARINE REVIEW—June, 1927 Co., Philadelphia and furnished by MARINE REVIEW, Cleveland for $4.50 postpaid and in Europe by the Penton Publishing Co., Ltd., Caxton House, London, for 22s 6d, net. In his customary clear and inter- esting style the author has given to the reader in this book a splendid pic- ture of the earliest beginnings of the ship under sail down to its last glori- ous epoch. This book will be of in- terest to all who love ships and sea- faring. It is illustrated with 36 plates of many fine ship models, old prints and paintings of famous and historic ships. This book is full of curious sea- lore which is the result of many years of research. It is from such facts that the reader obtains a clear and a vivid idea of the evolution and many changes in the development of the sailing ship. It is far more than an account of the gradual development of rig and hull. The author manages with great skill also to give the reader a picture of the conditions of sea life, its problems and progress during the last 800 years. Written in an en- tertaining style and still with utmost regard to accuracy, there is nothing dull in this history. Some idea of the scope of the book may be had from the following enum- eration of its seventeen chapters: The Earliest of All Rigs; The Early Medi- terranean Ship Rigs; The North Eu- ropean Rig; Mediaeval Rigs; Caracks and Caravels; Tudor Ships; At Sea in the Sixteenth Century; Ships of the Seventeenth Century; Eighteenth Cen- tury Rigs; East Indiamen; Clipper Ship Days; The Glory that was Sail; Early Fore-and-After; Development of the Fore-and-After Rig; Cutters and Luggers! Progress of the Fore-and- Aft Rig; and the Fore-and-Afters Finally. Assistant Sales Manager Announcement has been made by the Sperry Gyroscope Co. of the ap- pointment of R. B. Lea as assistant sales manager of the company. He will also continue as manager of the marine department. Mr. Lea became associated with the Sperry company immediately after leaving Cornell in 1915 and has had experience in near- ly all departments of the company. He has a large acquaintance among - marine people throughout the world. The YOMACHICHI under conversion from steam to diesel power at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. will be equipped with four Maxim silencers to go with the engines.