... Green. 12s. The Laird's Luck. A. T. Quiller-Couch. (London : Cassell. 65.) Manasseh. By Maurus Jokai. (London : Macqueen ) Cardigan. By Robert W. Chambers. (London ; Constable. 65.) Despair's Last Journey. By D. Christie Murray. (London : Chatto and Windus ...

... Grey from Martinique, ‘are not fit to bear arms.’ ‘I know not which are worse, officers or men,’ wrote Moore. ‘ Send me men, not boys,’ wrote Sir Colin Campbell from India. Yet the boys who were not fit to bear arms captured the West Indies from the French; ...

... campaigning that lie buried in the files of the United Service Journal, or in the reminiscences of happy-go-lucky writers like Grattan, the rollicking memorialist of the Connaught Rangers. To read him is to understand how little the Peninsular scenes in Charles ...

... they friends or wild murderous dwarfs? Quivering with trepidation he approached and to his great relief he saw that they were armed with rifles. That was a sign of civilisation. As soon as they saw him they surrounded him, and from the expression on their ...