17 JUNE 1899, Page 25

With Eitchener's Army. By Owen Spencer Watkins. (S. W. Partridge

and Co. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Watkins, who was " Acting Wesleyan Chaplain" to the Sirdar's army, has given us here a very pleasant book. There is not, as far as we can see, anything absolutely new; but the standpoint of the writer is his own, and the view that he pictures for us of men and things has a certain speciality. We are glad to see his emphatic denial of Mr. Bennett's accusations. The Dervishes were treated, if a dis- passionate observer may be trusted, with a forbearance and kind ness that they would hardly have met with from any army not under British control.