Berge Pertval Marling wt Yeo ca: temas Axo Hussat.—By Colonel
Whh'a Foreword by Fie atabal the Viscount Piomer, Ge, com. Mseray London. 18/~
The author ends on this note: old friend of sine at ranch jand about the same time the author what battle" by, making speeches "or had this insight into some of the rigours of sh ard lif The new. Labour Bill sllomiag the between Later came the disastrous battle Gibraltar and County Council to come and But rab:
ita'on one's land, £0 say nothing of of "Majaba, when General Colley the faiguitous Death Duties, f don"
Being taxed out' of ediatenee put all criticism at rest by perish-Ing in that action.
'A good story is told of a Commissariat officer who never came rather agree with him, but under fire at Majuba. His tele-neatly "everywhere gram to his wife ran thus: "We:
humble "way T've" always. tried "to sense things and are defeated, but I am saved"—a message which unfortunately got the "grime, currency in the Mess and caused lived my tite and I've nearly delighted ridicule among the young-officers. played the game all The admirer of Charles Lever But the Best of the fon 1 freely will find plenty of attraction in with ft, and said,
1 owe it to, horse and hound." this lary, because the author, obviously was of the very type mea for dec who wid above all, I thank God for a ood wite {he tish novelist loved to depict tel the shina, doctor," end of \the table, the pages are pepper Will this vivacious diary, with piquant anecdotes which throw an its curious mosaic of the' emall intimate light on the less strenuous hauled her out of the saloon Beer and the thrilling moments of side of a soldier's life. Hero is the the life of a cavalryman and way in which the Colonel of the rake a Tot of glass 278 ghee abi sportsman, be regarded in the not-Rifle Brigade received the Dake of so-very-distant future as a record Connaught's proposal of the toast. of a type which the world can no of his health, coupled with con-longer produce? 'There are pes-gratulations on the conferment on Simists who would give a vigorous In Victorian days, generals who affirmative, and there ae, love him by Queen Vitoria of well had never seen a' shot fired in who would lugubriously delight in anger were not unknown, and at a supporting it." Sov.ehow or other, closen "laing "Broken, "Oar Royal Inspection by the Duke of the less biased reader will come to got wp end returned thank an officer of this class the conclusion that conditions may much obi the author's second charger change, Labour Chancellors of the which His Hoyal High-at Tattersall's and used it for the Exchequer may be more. ruthless, reposed. th of day of the inspection: but the same spirit which carried Sir Percival Marling so buoyantly through his regimental service and ity attendant dangers and delights
"lish countryside exists and Wil! be active ao Tong as the, Eng broken, "there were, presen, Shouts of" applause and more ethics of sportsmanship and good-Zellowship remain as he expounds them, undogmatically and un-
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