[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I quite concur
in the opinion you have formed as to the absorbing interest and great value of the Minutes of Evidence taken by the Royal Commission on the South AfricanNirar, which, as you say, every Army reformer should use as his Bible. You express the doubts of some, in your excellent and able article in the Spectator of September 5th, that young officers will read the views of their senior officers as given in the Minutes on Modern Tactics and Army Administration. It may be too much to expect every young officer to expend 12s. 61 in buying a heavy Blue-book of four volumes. Let the Government supply the mess of every regiment, corps, and depot with a copy, and they will read them and much improve their professional knowledge.—I am, Sir, dc:e.,
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL,
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