"As a manual of professional education the merits of this work are so generally admitted in fact, they are so obvious in respect to the clearness and conciseness with which they expound and illustrate the principles of the military art, that it would be superfluous on our part to affect to set forth the further grounds of a scientific nature on which it has obtained the approval of professional judges. In the briefest compass the student is here provided with a complete treatise of strategy and tactics, that is to say, according to the arbitrary distinction commonly recognised, with a view of the principles which regulate the movement of an army on the theatre of war, whether the enemy is or is not actually present or visible. How to preserve and how to forward an army to the place of battle, and how to make the most of its resources in the field, on the choice of a base and of a line of operations, on the attack and defence of positions, and manoeuvring with the three arms, and on the moral as well as material instruments at a commander's disposal, - on all these

topics this little volume contains the fullest information in the form best fitted to impress the reader. General propositions, and even details on such a subject, are of little use without a copious reference to diagrams and examples, and here the diagrams are not only simple and intelligible, but the examples are furnished in sufficient number from the best known campaigns of the most celebrated commanders. Thus this work is available to the general student at the same time that it is expressly dedicated to the younger officers of the British Army, in the hope that they may be induced to study the priuciples of their profession. On the

subject of these duties any young officer will unquestionably do well to study the present volume, for on some even of the most elementary functions of his profession he may learn to look with new interest in consequence of its instructions. . As respects life in quarters or life in the field, again we repeat our general recommendation of the present volume."

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HISTORY

GREECE.

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This is a new and thoroughly revised and improved edition of Dr. Schmitz's school abridgment of Bishop Thirlwall's History of Greece. The supplementary chapters on the Literature and the Arts of Ancient Greece have been entirely rewritten. "We direct attention to this edition," observes the Scotsman, "on account of some important modifi tions which greatly enhance its value." present edition, besides having undergone a careful revision of the text, which will be found improved in many parts, contains two important additions, which, it is trusted, may render the book more complete and generally acceptable. The first of these additions consists of six supplementary chapters on the literature and the arts of the Greeks, in which all the more important productions of the Greek mind are briefly discussed and characterised

"For a long period the want of an ably digested history of Greece, for the use of young scholars, was felt to be both a shame to our literature, and a disparagement to our learning. Mitford's volumes are too long for the purpose; and much knowledge has been acquired since they were written. Within the last fifty years more has been done both by English and foreign scholars to elucidate Grecian history than at any period since the revival of learning; and the result of these labours is the acquisition of two English works upon the subject such as no other nation can boast of. In Germany we have dissertations, treatises, essays; in England consecutive history. It remained only that Dr. Thirlwall's work should be condensed, and that the details so copiously elaborated by him should be analysed and reduced to a compendious manual, adapted

so as to form a compendious history of literature and the arts among the Greeks. The second addition consists of 137 wood engravings, either copies from the antique (portraits, coins, antiquities, and remains), or representations of scenes memorable in the history of Greece. The latter are taken from Sir Wm. Gell's original sketches, which are now in the British Museum, and all have been executed from drawings by Mr. G. Scharf, jun. Three editions of this work having been favourably received in its original shape, it is hoped that the improvements above de. scribed, while they make the volume more attractive to the eye, will increase its usefulness in laying the basis of a sound knowledge of the history and arts of ancient Greece, and in aiding the young scholar to trace their influence on modern civilisation.

to scholastic requirements, without detraction from literary grace. Three editions of Dr. L. Schmitz's history prove its acceptability; but, not satisfied with attention to the requirements previously alluded to, the author has added to the fourth edition supplementary chapters on the literature and the arts of the ancient Greeks; including admirable expositions of the language and dialects, of poetry and the drama, as well as dissertations upon the progress of historical and scientific study. In a small compass the scholar has here before him a full view of the whole subject, his course through which is enlivened and informed by beautiful illustrations drawn from actual landscapes and ancient remains-illustrations which invest a volume remarkable for historical accuracy with all the attractions of artistic skill." JOHN BULL.