SOME MILITARY HANDBOOKS.*
Corzimr, FOSTER has produced a useful work on Military Organization. Without going into too great detail he treats his subject systematically, so that the reader is not presented with a mere congeries of facts, but is also enabled to realize their significance. The first three parts deal respectively with War Organization of the Present Day, with British War Organization, and with the Organization of Foreign Armies. There follows in Part IV. an historical survey of the evolution of military organization from the fifteenth century to the present time ; and, finally, Part V. treats of the all-important subject of military command. The author's aim is " to give in broad outline a general account of organization for war and of the psychological principles underlying the exercise of command, which it is the main purpose of organization to facilitate." He is to be congratulated on the successful manner in which he has carried out his intention.
Colonel Banning's handbook on Organization has stood the teat of years. The present edition is the eleventh, and it has been carefully revised and brought up to date. The informa- tion is as well arranged, as compactly given, and as fully pro- vided with references to the authorities as ever. Officers -undergoing the ordeal of examination for promotion could hardly have a more excellent digest of an intricate subject. Many have been grateful to its author in the past ; their successors will have no less cause for gratitude in the future.
The Military Law Examiner, by Colonel Pratt, has also earned a long-established reputation as a useful compila- tion for officers preparing for the promotion or other examina- tions. The eighth edition is no less complete, concise, accurate, and well furnished with references to the official books than its predecessors.
Major Legge's Guide to Promotion for Officers in Subject (a) (i.)(Regimento2 Duties) is another book which has already • (I) Organization : IIow Annie. are Formed for War. By Col. Hubert Foster, B.E. London Hugh Bees. [3s. 6d. net.]—(2) Organisation, Administration, and Equipment Made Easri: By Lt.-Colonel S. T. Banning. 11thEdition. London : Gale and Pollen. 4e. dd. net4---(3) The Military Law Examiner. by Lt.-Colonel Sisson C. Pra t, B.A. (retired). 8th Edition. Lon- don Gale and Poldon. [4s. 6d. net.]—(4) Guide to Promotion for Officers in Subject (a) ti.). (Regimental Duties.) By Major B. F. Legge. 3rd Edition. London : Gale and 1?olden. (4s. not.]— 5) Notes on Army Signatting. 5th Edition. London : Gale and Polden. [3d. —(6) A Supplement to the Third Class Array &hoot Certificate Mode Baty. ondon : Gale and Poideu. [3d.]
proved its value. It comprises in small compass a mass of information which would otherwise have to be painfully sought out from a large number of official publications, and in the present edition—the third—it is brought thoroughly up to date.
Among the booklets of Messrs. Gale and Polden's Military Series we have to note the fifth edition of the Notes on Army Signalling and a Supplement to the Third Class Army School Certificate Made Easy. These are useful publications in a, handy form.
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