the War and Navy Departments of the United States
having purchased a large edition for use in the service and ship
libraries, and the British Government having supplied the books to the
cruising ships of the Royal Navy. German and French translations have
appeared.

I. The Influence of Sea Power upon History. 1660-1783. With 25
Charts of Great Naval Battles. Demy 8vo. Cloth extra, gilt top, 18_s._

II. The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and
Empire. With 13 Maps and Battle Plans. 2 vols. Demy 8vo., cloth
extra, gilt top, 30_s._

III. The Life of Admiral Farragut. With Steel Engraved Portrait,
also a General Map and Plans of the Passage of the Mississippi Forts,
the Vicksburg Batteries, and Port Hudson, and the Battle of Mobile
Bay. Crown 8vo., cloth, price 6_s._

Captain Mahan's book is admirable, both as a picture of the Admiral
himself and as gathering up the lessons of strategy and conduct which
are to be learnt from a survey of his career.--_Times._

IV. The Life of Nelson: the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great
Britain. With 12 Battle Plans, 7 Lithographic Maps, and 19
Photogravure Plates. 2 vols. Demy 8vo., cloth extra, gilt top, price
36_s._ _net_.

The late Admiral Tryon, of the British Navy, pronounced them _simply
great_,--_the best things ever written._

THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY.

Extracts from Reviews.

Captain Mahan, whose name is famous all the world over as that of the
author of "The Influence of Sea Power upon History," a work, or rather
a series of works, which may fairly be said to have codified the laws
of naval strategy--_The Westminster Gazette._

An instructive work of the highest value and interest to students and
to the reading public, and should find its way into all the libraries
and homes of the land.--_Magazine of American History._

Captain Mahan has been recognized by all competent judges not merely
as the most distinguished living writer on naval strategy, but as the
originator and first exponent of what may be called the philosophy of
naval history.--_London Times._

The greatest of living writers on naval subjects.... Captain Mahan is
the author of books which mark a new era in historical literature.
They are to sailors of every navy in the world what Napier's "History
of the Peninsular War" was to British soldiers, and something more.
Captain Mahan is a born historian.--_London Daily News._

The American officer was fitted by nature