A review of C. W. Sleeman's Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare; containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare; also a Detailed Description of all Matters appertaining thereto, including the latest Improvements, Griffin and Co., Portsmouth. Besides the very excellent volume on submarine warfare by Lieut. - Commander Barnes, published in New York in 1870, and the numerous detailed articles on the construction and use of torpedoes that had appeared in the columns of Engineering, (vols. xxi. to xxv.) the editors of Engineering believed that it was the most complete work on torpedo warfare published at the time (1880).