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... history is Hlot SO full of stirring 'incident as the first half, but, nevertheless, the gallant Scotsmen serving in the Nether- lands in those days had many opportunities of proving their me.ttle, and these they never f-ailed to embrace. fliD.ng this ! period ...
... military -fortune. For in the course of his long sojourn in the Holy Land, he mastered the dialects of the East; and when at last he volunteered for service in the new Egyptian Army, exchanging the role of a burrowing sappy for that of a beau sabreur ...
... more' notwrhe- Igs views' of books is one on The LifeanLetr ifl'- of Sir John Millais, by his son. all 5S. ~WOMAN AT HOME. ,!n The WOMAN AT HoM13 (Hodder and Stoughton, in 27, Paternoster-row).' Probably most readers-.will- first turn to the paper ...
... last year. Lientenant-'i General Tyrrell writes about the French Emi-; grant Army of the Prince of Conde. and other writers deal with the rising of the Afridis, thre 11th Army Corps and the German Imperiat- Manfeuvres of 1899, the Caucasus, Hanninbal- ...
... may be regarded as having been entirely successful, for it proves that in case of necessity a column forming the head of an army corps sent from the Caucasus might reach Kushka in eight days.-Reuter. THE EXILED CONSPIRATORS' LEAVE-TAKING. M. DIZROULI:DE ...
... aloud. The tale has often been told, but never the whole of it, for it is shameful for a man to relate how he wept like a woman and begged for his life. But now all the others are dead-and, for myself, why, I am only an old man of no account who will ...
... revolvers will find plenty of valuable information in the book. The Mauser pistol, as to the relative merits of which and the army service revolver there has lately been so much discussion, is illustrated and explained, and one notes with interest that, ...
... die for thee? -The Outlook. TH3E UISE OF THE BAYONET IN THE BRITISH ARMY. I The bayonet, which inspires such terror in the ranks of the Boers, was not employed in the British Army until the reign of Charles II., when it was described in s, Royal Warrant ...
... Theii tlinit that. flashed through rmy inirtil waos cc that somiebody' had comne quietly in at the bi other end otf the room land had reached 'R across belefore, the light. 1. turned my head, i but I ivas alone. -Nothing' huug before thes lighlt. bat there ...
... his coius first by ths Iisij, thsn by whiskey, and ultimately by the sword. 4. John Bull grabs every inch of land-espeially geld. bearing land-bo can lay his hands upon, leaving 0ChAnce to other nat~ens. Jrsge as au inffividual, the following vice and ...
... No n I , madame, answered, Calino, reaesm-1nglY. 'It has been foretold that I am to dip on the 'guil- iotinn I' Tee ?? woman went into hysteric, n ad to be removed frem the train at the next station, HB SAVED TWO TRAkINS. It 'doe s not take heroics ...
... haggard face. ll is : caufiht and mingled with the love in hter eve~. How can you love me still ?? he said. ia . A good woman-and I- I am not good, she cried, with , ,; sistence, antfthen shame stained her fa.:e :n 2. behnt her head, humbled. Mark ...