THE BOOKMAN.—“In her new biographical edition Mrs. Richmond Ritchie gives us precisely what we want. The volumes are a pleasure to hold and to handle. They are just what we like our ordinary every-day Thackeray to be. And prefixed to each of them we have all that we wish to know, or have any right to know, about the author himself; all the circumstances, letters, and drawings which bear upon the work.” ⁂ _A Prospectus of the Edition, with Specimen pages, will be sent post free on application._ LONDON: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE, S. W. WORKS BY FRANK T. BULLEN, F.R.G.S. =Deep Sea Plunderings.= THIRD IMPRESSION. With 8 Full-page Illustrations by ARTHUR TWIDLE. Crown 8vo, 6s. _SPECTATOR._—“A new book of sea stories from Mr. Bullen is an event which all who enjoy an exciting narrative set forth in a picturesque and animated manner have good reason to be thankful for.... There is something in the book to please almost every taste, and very little to call for serious criticism.... The book deserves to be, and will be, read by all who look to literature to provide them with refreshment and recreation.” _TIMES._—“Mr. Bullen’s name is sufficient recommendation for a collection of most miscellaneous stories, all smacking strongly of the brine. In ‘Deep Sea Plunderings’ be does exciting and informing work, and in the depths of the ocean finds inexhaustible treasure.” =The Men of the Merchant Service.= Being the Polity of the Mercantile Marine for ‘Longshore Readers.’ SECOND IMPRESSION. Large post 8vo, 7s. 6d. _SPECTATOR._—“The book is of great value, and of great interest to all the innumerable people who are curious about the most romantic and separate of lives. But it is of importance, secondly and chiefly, as Mr. Bullen’s appeal to the political sense of his country. Put as briefly as possible, it comes to this. The control of the sea is vital to England; and the English, though they continue to be a great ship-owning people, are less and less a seafaring people. English ships are increasingly manned by foreigners and officered by foreigners. We cannot commend his volume too earnestly to public consideration. England’s tenure of her position in the world depends on her merchant marine no less than on her Navy, and in neither one nor the other can she afford to rely on mercenaries.” _ACADEMY._—“We could not in a short space convey any idea of the variety of special information—all so human and related-that Mr. Bullen gives.... We only prick a book that is bulged with seacraft, and resembles the perfect sailor whose every hair is a ropeyarn and every drop of blood Stockholm tar.”