10 FEBRUARY 1923, Page 43

This special number, though dated December, has just appeared. It

contains the hitherto unpublished diary of Sir James Halkett, Major in Dumbarton's Regiment, which is now the Royal Scots, describing the Moorish siege of Tangier in 1680. Halkett's account of the fighting is of great interest. The Moors were as desperate enemies then as the Spaniards on the Riff coast find them now, but they could not prevail against the little English and Scottish garrison. The young Society of Army Historical Research is to be congratulated on its energy ; it is destined to prosper.