Broad Arrow.—'We earnestly advise every officer of infantry or cavalry to carefully study this extremely valuable book.'Large crown 8vo. 6s.THE INFANTRY WEAPON AND ITS USE IN WAR.By Lieut.-Col. C. B. MAYNE, R.E.AUTHOR OF 'INFANTRY FIRE TACTICS.'Army and Navy Gazette.—'Of such supreme value that it should receive immediate official sanction, and be constituted a text-book published by authority.'United Service Magazine.—'Throughout the entire volume there is unmistakable evidence of profound theoretical knowledge most happily combined with a full measure of practical common-sense.'Revue du Cercle Militaire.—'Conçu avec méthode, écrit clairement et avec sincérité.'Royal Engineers Journal.—'If the War Office could afford to keep up a small professional library in every regiment for the instruction of the officers, it is one of the first books that should be provided.'Daily Chronicle.—'An admirable book.... It deals in a thoroughly practical spirit with the problems that the infantry leader has to face on the battle-field.'London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.With Maps. Small demy 8vo. 6s.net.PROBLEMS IN MANŒUVRE TACTICS, WITH SOLUTIONS, FOR OFFICERS OF ALL ARMS.By Major HOPPENSTEDT,INSTRUCTOR AT THE WAR SCHOOL, POTSDAM.Translated and adapted by Major J. H. V. Crowe, R.A., p.s.c., Instructor at the Royal Military Academy.⁂ Officers of all branches of the Service, whether of Regulars, Militia, Volunteers, or Yeomanry, will find this work of interest. The Problems are designed to guide Officers in the study of Manœuvre Tactics, and in drawing up schemes for Field Days or the War Game, and they include some Problems set at Staff College Examinations.London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.With a Map. 8vo. 3s.6d.INDIAN FRONTIER POLICY:AN HISTORICAL SKETCH.By the late General Sir JOHN ADYE, G.C.B., R.A.Morning Post.—'A valuable contribution to a question which is much exercising the public mind.'Colonies and India.—'General Adye sets forth, in a clear and concise form, an historical summary of the various wars and expeditions in which we have been engaged on the north-west frontier of India, and of the causes that led to them.'Army and Navy Gazette.—'An historical sketch of recent history and an indictment of that policy. The author's long experience entitles his opinions to attentive consideration.'London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.SMITH, ELDER, & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.THE LIFE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT.By SirTheodore Martin, K.C.B. With Portrait and Views. 5 vols. Demy 8vo. 18s. each.⁂ Also a 'People's Edition,' in 1 vol., bound in cloth, 4s.6d.; or in six parts, 6d.each. Cloth Cases for binding, 1s.each.MORE LEAVES FROM THE JOURNAL OF A LIFE IN THEHIGHLANDS,from 1862 to 1882. Fifth Edition. With Portraits and Woodcut Illustrations. 8vo. 10s.6d.⁂ Also the Popular Edition, with Portrait and Woodcut Illustrations, fcp. 8vo. 2s.6d.THE LIFE OF LORD LAWRENCE.ByR. Bosworth Smith, M.A.,late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; Author of 'Mohammed and Mohammedanism,' 'Carthage and the Carthaginians,' &c.Seventh Edition.2 vols. large crown 8vo. with 2 Portraits and 2 Maps, 21s.LIFE OF SIR HENRY LAWRENCE.By Major-General SirHerbertBenjamin Edwardes,K.C.B., K.C.S.I., andHerman Merivale, C.B. With Two Portraits. 8vo. 12s.LIFE OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR JAMES OUTRAM.By Major-GeneralSirFrederic J. Goldsmid, C.B., K.C.S.I. Second Edition. 2 vols. demy 8vo. 32s.RECOLLECTIONS OF A MILITARY LIFE.By General SirJohnAdye,G.C.B., R.A., late Governor of Gibraltar. With Illustrations by the Author. Demy 8vo. 14s.net.THE LIFE OF MAHOMET.From Original Sources. By SirWm. Muir,K.C.S.I. Third Edition, with a New Map and several Illustrations. 8vo. 16s.By the same Author.THE MAMELUKE OR SLAVE DYNASTY OF EGYPT,1260-1517A.D.With 12 Full-page Illustrations and a Map. 8vo. 10s.6d.THE CALIPHATE:ITS RISE, DECLINE, AND FALL. WithMaps. Third Edition. Demy 8vo. 16s.THE MERV OASIS:Travels and Adventures East of the Caspianduring the Years 1879-80-81, including Five Months' Residence among the Tekkes of Merv. ByEdmond O'Donovan, Special Correspondent of theDaily News. In 2 vols. demy 8vo. with Portrait, Maps, and Facsimiles of State Documents, 36s.MERV:a Story of Adventures and Captivity. Epitomised from 'TheMerv Oasis.' ByEdmond O'Donovan. With a Portrait. Crown 8vo. 6s.ESSAYS ON THE EXTERNAL POLICY OF INDIA.By thelate J. W. S. Wyllie, C.S.I., India Civil Service, sometime Acting Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. Edited, with a brief Life, by SirW. W. Hunter, B.A., LL.D. With a Portrait of the Author. 8vo. 14s.THE INDIA DIRECTORY.For the Guidance of Commanders ofSteamers and Sailing Vessels. Compiled from latest British Official Publications.Part I.Illustrated by Charts of Winds, Currents, Tides, Passages, and Compass Variation. Revised Edition, with Supplementary Chapters. Super royal 8vo. 28s.Part II.Illustrated by Charts of Currents in opposite Monsoons. Super royal 8vo. 28s.By CommanderAlfred Dundas Taylor, F.R.G.S., Indian Navy, late Superintendent of Marine Surveys to the Government of India.THE ANNALS OF RURAL BENGAL.From Official Records andthe Archives of Ancient Families. By SirW. W. Hunter, LL.D. Vol. I. The Ethnical Frontier. Fifth Edition. Demy 8vo. 18s.Also the new, revised, and cheaper edition (the Seventh). Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.By the same Author.ORISSA;or, The Vicissitudes of an Indian Province under Native andBritish Rule. Being the Second and Third Volumes of 'Annals of Rural Bengal.' With Illustrations. 2 vols. demy 8vo. 32s.A LIFE OF THE EARL OF MAYO,Fourth Viceroy of India. 2 vols.Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 24s.THE INDIAN EMPIRE:its Peoples, History, and Products. Thirdand Standard Edition. With Map. Demy 8vo. 28s.London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.WORKS BY W. H. FITCHETT,B.A., LL.D.The Commander of the 'Hirondelle.'With16 Full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 6s.ATHENÆUM.—'An admirable sea story.... It is good literature, too, and written with historical and technical knowledge.'Nelson and his Captains;Sketches of FamousSeamen.With 11 Portraits and a Facsimile Letter.Second Impression.Crown 8vo. 6s.PUNCH.—'My Baronite having read all Dr. Fitchett's tales of battles on land, thinks his best piece is his sea piece.... Saxon and Celt reading the glowing narrative will feel proud to know it's all true.'The Tale of the Great Mutiny.THIRD IMPRESSION.With 8 Portraits and 4 Plans. Crown 8vo. 6s.GUARDIAN.—'It is almost impossible to lay the book down. The story of those summer months of 1857 must ever appeal to English readers.'BOOKMAN.—'Written with all the swing and dash, with all the careful accuracy and brilliant descriptive power which have made Dr. Fitchett's books so deservedly popular.'How England Saved Europe:the Story ofthe Great War (1793-1815). SECOND IMPRESSION. In 4 vols. crown 8vo. with Portraits, Facsimiles, and Plans, 6s.each.TIMES.—'It is not without significance that this excellent "Story of the Great War," at once popular in the best sense, well informed, full of instruction, and very attractively written, should be the work of a Colonial writer.'GUARDIAN.—'Mr. Fitchett has achieved a real success, and the boy who cannot read these volumes with pleasure (and profit) is hopeless. They are, if boyhood would but see it, more enthralling than half the novels published.'Fights for the Flag.SECOND EDITION. With 16 Portraits,13 Plans, and a Facsimile Letter of the Duke of Marlborough. Crown 8vo. 6s.SPECTATOR.—'"Fights for the Flag" is as good as "Deeds that Won the Empire." To say more than this in praise of the book before us is unnecessary, for "Deeds that Won the Empire" was one of the best collection of popular battle studies ever given to the public.'REVIEW OF REVIEWS.—'As a gift-book, or as a book to take up and read at odd moments, or to devour at a prolonged sitting, this book has few equals, and will probably equal or eclipse the popularity of its predecessors.'Deeds that Won the Empire.SEVENTEENTH EDITION.With 16 Portraits and 11 Plans. Crown 8vo. 6s.SPECTATOR.—'Not since Macaulay ceased to write has English literature produced a writer capable of infusing such life and vigour into historical scenes. The wholesome and manly tone of Mr. Fitchett's book is specially satisfactory.... The book cannot but take the reader by storm wherever it finds him.'TIMES.—'"Deeds that Won the Empire" is admirably conceived and written. Wolfe's striking feat of arms at Quebec, Hawke's splendid victory in Quiberon Bay, Busaco, Albuera, the Nile, the action of theShannonandChesapeake, with other memorable fights by sea and land, are vividly described. Mr. Fitchett has not sacrificed historical accuracy to dramatic effect, and his words ring true.'Wellington's Men:some Soldier-Autobiographies.['Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade'; 'Rifleman Harris'; Anton's 'Military Life'; Mercer's 'Waterloo.'] Edited byW. H. Fitchett, B.A., LL.D. Crown 8vo. 6s.SPECTATOR.—'Mr. Fitchett has ere this sounded the clarion and filled the fife to good purpose, but he has never done better work than in rescuing from oblivion the narratives which appear in this volume.... We feel very grateful to Mr. Fitchett for his skilful editing of four stories which ought not to be allowed to die.'London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.'Unquestionably the most striking book the War has produced. A masterly piece of work, a real contribution to historical writing.'—Sketch.THOROUGHLY REVISED, ENLARGED, AND COMPLETED EDITION.NINETEENTH IMPRESSION, COMPLETING OVER 67,000 COPIES PRINTED.THE GREAT BOER WAR.BY A. CONAN DOYLE.With Maps. Large post 8vo. 10s.6d.Spectator.—'The conditions under which Dr. Conan Doyle's animated and valuable record was written relieve it from the dangers of red-hot impressionism.... When to these opportunities are added that manly temper and command of forcible and picturesque language which have won him distinction in the field of fiction, it is not to be wondered at that the result should prove as engrossing as any of his novels.'Queen.—'Whatever histories of the war in South Africa are written, Dr. Conan Doyle's "Great Boer War" must remainthehistory.... The book is marvellously exciting, admirably lucid, and scrupulously just.'Westminster Gazette.—'Mr. Conan Doyle may be congratulated very heartily on having written, in the "Great Boer War," a book which will delight and interest a wide circle of readers. Nowhere will the reader obtain a truer or more graphic picture of the warfare of the kopje and the veldt, nor of the difficulties which our generals had to overcome. The book is also a marvel of conciseness.'London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.A VOLUNTEER'S EXPERIENCES IN THE BOER WAR.THIRD IMPRESSION. With a Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. 6s.IN THE RANKS OF THE C.I.V.:A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences with the C.I.V. Battery (Hon. Artillery Company) in South Africa. By'Driver' Erskine Childers, Clerk in the House of Commons.Pall Mall Gazette.—'If we began to quote from this unpretentiously vivid, brightly written, and in every way admirable record we should never stop. As a description of life on campaign it could scarcely be bettered.'Daily Telegraph.—'A most interesting and at times a most picturesque diary.'Sketch.—'Mr. Childers writes with vigour and enthusiasm, and, what is better, appears to thoroughly understand what he is writing about.'Punch.—'A series of unpremeditated pictures of campaign life invaluable for their graphic touch.'London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.With Portraits of Piet De Wet and of a Group of Convalescents.YEOMAN SERVICE:Being the Diary of the Wife of an Imperial Yeomanry Officer during the Boer War.By the LadyMaud Rolleston. Large crown 8vo.7s.6d.Spectator.—'A very fascinating book.... We say to our readers without the slightest fear of misleading them—"get the book and read it."'World.—'None of the multitudinous war books surpass this one in attraction—few approach it. The services rendered by the writer are well known; her experiences, recorded here in a simple and lucid form, are full of human interest, general and particular.'Athenæum.—'Lady Maud Rolleston has written the best woman's book about the war. She does not show partiality ... indeed, appears to be gifted with unusual fairness.... On the whole we have nothing but praise for the book.'London: SMITH,ELDER,& CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.
Broad Arrow.—'We earnestly advise every officer of infantry or cavalry to carefully study this extremely valuable book.'
Large crown 8vo. 6s.
THE INFANTRY WEAPON AND ITS USE IN WAR.
By Lieut.-Col. C. B. MAYNE, R.E.
AUTHOR OF 'INFANTRY FIRE TACTICS.'
Army and Navy Gazette.—'Of such supreme value that it should receive immediate official sanction, and be constituted a text-book published by authority.'
United Service Magazine.—'Throughout the entire volume there is unmistakable evidence of profound theoretical knowledge most happily combined with a full measure of practical common-sense.'
Revue du Cercle Militaire.—'Conçu avec méthode, écrit clairement et avec sincérité.'
Royal Engineers Journal.—'If the War Office could afford to keep up a small professional library in every regiment for the instruction of the officers, it is one of the first books that should be provided.'
Daily Chronicle.—'An admirable book.... It deals in a thoroughly practical spirit with the problems that the infantry leader has to face on the battle-field.'
London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.
With Maps. Small demy 8vo. 6s.net.
PROBLEMS IN MANŒUVRE TACTICS, WITH SOLUTIONS, FOR OFFICERS OF ALL ARMS.
By Major HOPPENSTEDT,
INSTRUCTOR AT THE WAR SCHOOL, POTSDAM.
Translated and adapted by Major J. H. V. Crowe, R.A., p.s.c., Instructor at the Royal Military Academy.
⁂ Officers of all branches of the Service, whether of Regulars, Militia, Volunteers, or Yeomanry, will find this work of interest. The Problems are designed to guide Officers in the study of Manœuvre Tactics, and in drawing up schemes for Field Days or the War Game, and they include some Problems set at Staff College Examinations.
London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.
With a Map. 8vo. 3s.6d.
INDIAN FRONTIER POLICY:
AN HISTORICAL SKETCH.
By the late General Sir JOHN ADYE, G.C.B., R.A.
Morning Post.—'A valuable contribution to a question which is much exercising the public mind.'
Colonies and India.—'General Adye sets forth, in a clear and concise form, an historical summary of the various wars and expeditions in which we have been engaged on the north-west frontier of India, and of the causes that led to them.'
Army and Navy Gazette.—'An historical sketch of recent history and an indictment of that policy. The author's long experience entitles his opinions to attentive consideration.'
London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.
SMITH, ELDER, & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.
THE LIFE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT.By SirTheodore Martin, K.C.B. With Portrait and Views. 5 vols. Demy 8vo. 18s. each.
⁂ Also a 'People's Edition,' in 1 vol., bound in cloth, 4s.6d.; or in six parts, 6d.each. Cloth Cases for binding, 1s.each.
MORE LEAVES FROM THE JOURNAL OF A LIFE IN THEHIGHLANDS,from 1862 to 1882. Fifth Edition. With Portraits and Woodcut Illustrations. 8vo. 10s.6d.
⁂ Also the Popular Edition, with Portrait and Woodcut Illustrations, fcp. 8vo. 2s.6d.
THE LIFE OF LORD LAWRENCE.ByR. Bosworth Smith, M.A.,late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; Author of 'Mohammed and Mohammedanism,' 'Carthage and the Carthaginians,' &c.Seventh Edition.2 vols. large crown 8vo. with 2 Portraits and 2 Maps, 21s.
LIFE OF SIR HENRY LAWRENCE.By Major-General SirHerbertBenjamin Edwardes,K.C.B., K.C.S.I., andHerman Merivale, C.B. With Two Portraits. 8vo. 12s.
LIFE OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR JAMES OUTRAM.By Major-GeneralSirFrederic J. Goldsmid, C.B., K.C.S.I. Second Edition. 2 vols. demy 8vo. 32s.
RECOLLECTIONS OF A MILITARY LIFE.By General SirJohnAdye,G.C.B., R.A., late Governor of Gibraltar. With Illustrations by the Author. Demy 8vo. 14s.net.
THE LIFE OF MAHOMET.From Original Sources. By SirWm. Muir,K.C.S.I. Third Edition, with a New Map and several Illustrations. 8vo. 16s.
By the same Author.
THE MAMELUKE OR SLAVE DYNASTY OF EGYPT,1260-1517A.D.With 12 Full-page Illustrations and a Map. 8vo. 10s.6d.
THE CALIPHATE:ITS RISE, DECLINE, AND FALL. WithMaps. Third Edition. Demy 8vo. 16s.
THE MERV OASIS:Travels and Adventures East of the Caspianduring the Years 1879-80-81, including Five Months' Residence among the Tekkes of Merv. ByEdmond O'Donovan, Special Correspondent of theDaily News. In 2 vols. demy 8vo. with Portrait, Maps, and Facsimiles of State Documents, 36s.
MERV:a Story of Adventures and Captivity. Epitomised from 'TheMerv Oasis.' ByEdmond O'Donovan. With a Portrait. Crown 8vo. 6s.
ESSAYS ON THE EXTERNAL POLICY OF INDIA.By thelate J. W. S. Wyllie, C.S.I., India Civil Service, sometime Acting Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. Edited, with a brief Life, by SirW. W. Hunter, B.A., LL.D. With a Portrait of the Author. 8vo. 14s.
THE INDIA DIRECTORY.For the Guidance of Commanders ofSteamers and Sailing Vessels. Compiled from latest British Official Publications.Part I.Illustrated by Charts of Winds, Currents, Tides, Passages, and Compass Variation. Revised Edition, with Supplementary Chapters. Super royal 8vo. 28s.Part II.Illustrated by Charts of Currents in opposite Monsoons. Super royal 8vo. 28s.By CommanderAlfred Dundas Taylor, F.R.G.S., Indian Navy, late Superintendent of Marine Surveys to the Government of India.
THE ANNALS OF RURAL BENGAL.From Official Records andthe Archives of Ancient Families. By SirW. W. Hunter, LL.D. Vol. I. The Ethnical Frontier. Fifth Edition. Demy 8vo. 18s.Also the new, revised, and cheaper edition (the Seventh). Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.
By the same Author.
ORISSA;or, The Vicissitudes of an Indian Province under Native andBritish Rule. Being the Second and Third Volumes of 'Annals of Rural Bengal.' With Illustrations. 2 vols. demy 8vo. 32s.
A LIFE OF THE EARL OF MAYO,Fourth Viceroy of India. 2 vols.Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 24s.
THE INDIAN EMPIRE:its Peoples, History, and Products. Thirdand Standard Edition. With Map. Demy 8vo. 28s.
London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.
WORKS BY W. H. FITCHETT,B.A., LL.D.
The Commander of the 'Hirondelle.'With16 Full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 6s.
ATHENÆUM.—'An admirable sea story.... It is good literature, too, and written with historical and technical knowledge.'
Nelson and his Captains;Sketches of FamousSeamen.With 11 Portraits and a Facsimile Letter.Second Impression.Crown 8vo. 6s.
PUNCH.—'My Baronite having read all Dr. Fitchett's tales of battles on land, thinks his best piece is his sea piece.... Saxon and Celt reading the glowing narrative will feel proud to know it's all true.'
The Tale of the Great Mutiny.THIRD IMPRESSION.With 8 Portraits and 4 Plans. Crown 8vo. 6s.
GUARDIAN.—'It is almost impossible to lay the book down. The story of those summer months of 1857 must ever appeal to English readers.'
BOOKMAN.—'Written with all the swing and dash, with all the careful accuracy and brilliant descriptive power which have made Dr. Fitchett's books so deservedly popular.'
How England Saved Europe:the Story ofthe Great War (1793-1815). SECOND IMPRESSION. In 4 vols. crown 8vo. with Portraits, Facsimiles, and Plans, 6s.each.
TIMES.—'It is not without significance that this excellent "Story of the Great War," at once popular in the best sense, well informed, full of instruction, and very attractively written, should be the work of a Colonial writer.'
GUARDIAN.—'Mr. Fitchett has achieved a real success, and the boy who cannot read these volumes with pleasure (and profit) is hopeless. They are, if boyhood would but see it, more enthralling than half the novels published.'
Fights for the Flag.SECOND EDITION. With 16 Portraits,13 Plans, and a Facsimile Letter of the Duke of Marlborough. Crown 8vo. 6s.
SPECTATOR.—'"Fights for the Flag" is as good as "Deeds that Won the Empire." To say more than this in praise of the book before us is unnecessary, for "Deeds that Won the Empire" was one of the best collection of popular battle studies ever given to the public.'
REVIEW OF REVIEWS.—'As a gift-book, or as a book to take up and read at odd moments, or to devour at a prolonged sitting, this book has few equals, and will probably equal or eclipse the popularity of its predecessors.'
Deeds that Won the Empire.SEVENTEENTH EDITION.With 16 Portraits and 11 Plans. Crown 8vo. 6s.
SPECTATOR.—'Not since Macaulay ceased to write has English literature produced a writer capable of infusing such life and vigour into historical scenes. The wholesome and manly tone of Mr. Fitchett's book is specially satisfactory.... The book cannot but take the reader by storm wherever it finds him.'
TIMES.—'"Deeds that Won the Empire" is admirably conceived and written. Wolfe's striking feat of arms at Quebec, Hawke's splendid victory in Quiberon Bay, Busaco, Albuera, the Nile, the action of theShannonandChesapeake, with other memorable fights by sea and land, are vividly described. Mr. Fitchett has not sacrificed historical accuracy to dramatic effect, and his words ring true.'
Wellington's Men:some Soldier-Autobiographies.['Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade'; 'Rifleman Harris'; Anton's 'Military Life'; Mercer's 'Waterloo.'] Edited byW. H. Fitchett, B.A., LL.D. Crown 8vo. 6s.
SPECTATOR.—'Mr. Fitchett has ere this sounded the clarion and filled the fife to good purpose, but he has never done better work than in rescuing from oblivion the narratives which appear in this volume.... We feel very grateful to Mr. Fitchett for his skilful editing of four stories which ought not to be allowed to die.'
London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.
'Unquestionably the most striking book the War has produced. A masterly piece of work, a real contribution to historical writing.'—Sketch.
THOROUGHLY REVISED, ENLARGED, AND COMPLETED EDITION.
NINETEENTH IMPRESSION, COMPLETING OVER 67,000 COPIES PRINTED.
THE GREAT BOER WAR.
BY A. CONAN DOYLE.
With Maps. Large post 8vo. 10s.6d.
Spectator.—'The conditions under which Dr. Conan Doyle's animated and valuable record was written relieve it from the dangers of red-hot impressionism.... When to these opportunities are added that manly temper and command of forcible and picturesque language which have won him distinction in the field of fiction, it is not to be wondered at that the result should prove as engrossing as any of his novels.'
Queen.—'Whatever histories of the war in South Africa are written, Dr. Conan Doyle's "Great Boer War" must remainthehistory.... The book is marvellously exciting, admirably lucid, and scrupulously just.'
Westminster Gazette.—'Mr. Conan Doyle may be congratulated very heartily on having written, in the "Great Boer War," a book which will delight and interest a wide circle of readers. Nowhere will the reader obtain a truer or more graphic picture of the warfare of the kopje and the veldt, nor of the difficulties which our generals had to overcome. The book is also a marvel of conciseness.'
London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.
A VOLUNTEER'S EXPERIENCES IN THE BOER WAR.
THIRD IMPRESSION. With a Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. 6s.
IN THE RANKS OF THE C.I.V.:
A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences with the C.I.V. Battery (Hon. Artillery Company) in South Africa. By'Driver' Erskine Childers, Clerk in the House of Commons.
Pall Mall Gazette.—'If we began to quote from this unpretentiously vivid, brightly written, and in every way admirable record we should never stop. As a description of life on campaign it could scarcely be bettered.'
Daily Telegraph.—'A most interesting and at times a most picturesque diary.'
Sketch.—'Mr. Childers writes with vigour and enthusiasm, and, what is better, appears to thoroughly understand what he is writing about.'
Punch.—'A series of unpremeditated pictures of campaign life invaluable for their graphic touch.'
London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.
With Portraits of Piet De Wet and of a Group of Convalescents.
YEOMAN SERVICE:
Being the Diary of the Wife of an Imperial Yeomanry Officer during the Boer War.
By the LadyMaud Rolleston. Large crown 8vo.7s.6d.
Spectator.—'A very fascinating book.... We say to our readers without the slightest fear of misleading them—"get the book and read it."'
World.—'None of the multitudinous war books surpass this one in attraction—few approach it. The services rendered by the writer are well known; her experiences, recorded here in a simple and lucid form, are full of human interest, general and particular.'
Athenæum.—'Lady Maud Rolleston has written the best woman's book about the war. She does not show partiality ... indeed, appears to be gifted with unusual fairness.... On the whole we have nothing but praise for the book.'
London: SMITH,ELDER,& CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.
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