MACHINERY AT THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.
The writer, in apologising for the brief ness of this sketch, would, at the same time, urge upon its readers the advisa bility of getting Mr Plimsolls book itself, which, written in the earnest style of a man whose whole heart is in what he writes, and with its admirable tables and well executed photographs, makes up a work well worth perusing, even without taking the momentous interest attached to it into consideration, and which should be of special interest to us, living as we do, near numerous and increasing sea ports, from which so many brave men go daily down to the sea in ships, and how often many amongst us know only too well in as dangerous circumstances as those for whom the member for Derby so elo quently asks our aid.
