WALTER RUNCIMAN, Sen.

Author of "The Shellback's Progress in the Nineteenth Century."

SECOND EDITION. LONDON AND NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE: THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., LTD. NEW YORK: 3 EAST 14TH STREET. 1905.

"THE —— RATS HAVE EATEN UP HOLLAND"

THESE EXPERIENCES AND OPINIONS OF THINGS NAVAL NEW AND OLD ARE DEDICATED WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF ESTEEM TO JOHN DENT AND WILLIAM MILBURN AND TO THE MEMORY OF E.H. WATTS