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HARRY WILLIAMS, R.N. (Chief Inspector of Machinery). 

 Dedicated, by permission, to Admiral H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. 

 The Steam Navy of England. Past, Present, and Future. 



Contents: — Part I. — Our Seamen; Part II. — Ships and Machinery; 



Part III. — Naval Engineering; Part IV. — Miscellaneous, Summary, 



with an Appendix on the Personnel of the Steam Branch of the Navy. 



Third and enlarged Edition. Medium 8vo, 12s. 6d. 

 " It is a series of essays, clearly written aud often highly suggestive, on the still 

 unsolved, or only partially and tentatively solved, problems connected with the man- 

 ning and organisation, and propulsion of our modern war-ships, . . . being laudably 

 free from technicalities, and written in a not unattractive style, they will recommend 

 themselves to that small, but happily increasing, section of the general public which 

 concerns itself seriously and intelligently with naval affairs." — Times. 



" Mr Harry "Williams, a naval engineer of long experience and high rank, discusses 

 the future requirements of the fleet. He is naturally most at home when dealing with 

 points which specially affect his own branch of the service, but the whole book is well 

 worth study. 1 ' — Manchester Guardian. 



" Must be pronounced a technical book in the main, although its author expressly 

 states that he wrote it 'not so much for professional as non-professional men.' Its 

 manifest object is to promote the efficiency of our steam navy in times to come, keeping 

 which aim steadfastly in view Mr Williams has brought great knowledge and ability to 

 bear upon the endeavour to forecast what provision it would be well to make in order 

 to meet the full naval requirements of the British nation. His highly instructive work 

 is divided into four parts, under the respective titles of 'Our Seamen,' 'Ships and 

 Machinery.' 'Naval Engineering.' and • Miscellaneous,' which again are carefully 

 summarised in some fifty pages of eminently readable matter. The three chapters of 

 miscellanea deal principally with the coal- endurance, engine-room complements, elec- 

 tric lighting, and steam-steering machinery of Her Majesty's ships." — Daily Telegraph 



Professor H. H. WILSON, author of the " Standard History of India." 

 Glossary of Judicial Terms, including words from the Arabic, 

 Persian, Hindustani, Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Uriya, Marathi, 

 Guzarathi, Telugu, Karnata, Tamil, Malayalam, and other languages. 

 4to, cloth, 30s. 



Wynter's Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. 



Contents. 



The Buried Eoman City in Britain. Early Warnings. 



" Silvertown." Dining Rooms for the Working Classes. 



Advertising. Railway and City Population. 



Vivisection. A Day with the Coroner. 



The New Hotel System. The English in Paris. 



The Restoration of our Soil. The Times Newspaper in 1798. 



Half-Hours at the Kensington Museum. The Under-Sea Railroad. 



Mudie's Circulating Library. Oh, the Roast Beef of Old England 



Fraudulent Trade Marks. Physical Education. 



Superstition: Where does it End? Advice by a Retired Physician. 



The New Counterblast to Tobacco. The Clerk of the Weather. 



Air Traction. Portsmouth Dockyard. 



Illuminations. Village Hospitals. 



Boat-Building by Machinery. Railways, the Great Civilisers. 



The Effects of Railway Travelling upon On taking a House. 



Health. Photographic Portraiture. 



The Working-Men's Flower Show. Doctor's Stuff. 



Messages under the Sea. Smallpox in London. 



Town Telegraphs. Hospital Dress. 



The Bread We Eat. Excursion Trains. 



"Altogether ' Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers' is about the pleasantest book of 

 short collected papers of chit chat blending information with amusement, and not over- 

 tasking the attention or the intelligence, that we have seen for a good while." — London 

 Reader. 



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