IN the last issue of The Life-boat a review was published of Modern Motor Life-boa's of the Institution, by Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A., who has been the Institution's con- sulting naval architect for the past twenty-eight years. As the first book to be written describing in detail the design and construction of the modern motor life-boat, it should be of great interest to all connected with the ser- Those who buy it may also feel vice.

that they are directly helping the Institution, for Mr. Barnett generously proposes to give the Institution all his profits on the sale of the book..