Volume 62 — Spiritualism for Sailors.
Reading edition
Mr. Vernon Lushington, Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty, speaking of that body of naval administrators, doubtless, with knowledge and in sincerity, calls it a "Phantom Board." A Board of Phantoms may be said to be a Board of Ghosts, and such a Board of Admiralty sending British seamen afloat in rotten Megæras, is a Board of Ghosts with power to add to their number.