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THE NAVIES OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF EUROPE.

MODERN SHIPS OF WAR. By SIR EDWARD J. REED, M.P., late Chief Constructor of the British Navy, and EDWARD SIMPSON, Rear-Admiral U.S.N., late President of the U.S. Naval Advisory Board. With Supplementary Chapters and Notes by J. D. JERROLD KELLEY, Lieutenant U.S.N. Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $2 50.

_This is the most valuable contribution yet made to the popular literature of modern navies.... The whole country is indebted to the authors and to the publishers for a book on men-of-war that both in matter and make-up is without an equal._--N. Y. Herald.