No small merit this.
And its claim on the generosity of the public is derived from a long
record of valuable public service. Since we are all agreed that the men
of the merchant service are a national asset worthy of care and sympathy,
the public could express this sympathy no better than by enabling the
Sailors' Home, so useful in the past, to continue its friendly offices to
the seamen of future generations.
Footnotes
{1} Yvette and Other Stories. Translated by Ada Galsworthy.
{2} _Turgenev_: A Study. By Edward Garnett.
{3} _Studies in Brown Humanity_. By Hugh Clifford.
{4} _Quiet Days in Spain_. By C. Bogue Luffmann.
{5} Existence after Death Implied by Science. By Jasper B. Hunt, M.A.
{6} _The Ascending Effort_. By George Bourne.
{7} Since writing the above, I am told that such doors are fitted in the
bunkers of more than one ship in the Atlantic trade.
{8} The loss of the _Empress of Ireland_.
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