10 OCTOBER 1925, Page 21

" WHERE HANNIBAL PASSED "

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In the Spectator the reviewer of my book, Where Hannibal Passed, questions my assumption as to Hannibal's rate of marching. On this point I would refer him to the marches which Suvoroff accomplished in 1799 ; also to the definite statements in Polybius and Livy that on leaving the Rhone Crossing, Hannibal (a) marched for four days up the Rhone and (b) marched 800 stades up the Rhone—thus doing 200 stades,

or some 23 miles per day.—I am, Sir, &c., A. R. BoNcs. Oxford and Cambridge Club,

Pall Mall, S.W.1.