16 NOVEMBER 1889, Page 23

In " Gale and Polden's Military Series," we have Military

Administration for Volunteer Officers, by Captain H. Walker (Gale and Polden), a volume which will help the Volunteer officer in gaining that practical acquaintance with the details of military life that is now more and more urgently necessary. There is nothing very complicated in the administrative machinery of the Army, nothing more than can be mastered by attention. But attention is wanted, and a help like this volume will materially lessen the labour that it requires.