The Mutiny and the World War are the main episodes
of the stirring pages of King George's Own Central India Horse, by Major-General W. A. Watson (Blackwood, 21s.). The author joined the regiment in 1882, and is now its honorary colonel ; his father before him, a Mutiny veteran, com- manded it in the 'sixties, not many years after it had been forined out of three bodies of horseMeade's, Beatson's and Mayne's—recruited for service against the rebels of Central. India. General Watson gives an interesting account of the siliadar " system, riow unfortunately abandoned, untie!r' Whieh men of good family e isted and supplied" their own horses, while the regiment was an independent organiza- tion with its' own farms. In 1910 the regiment was engaged . on a small expedition in Southern Persia; from Bushlre. Its fine service in France in 1014-17, and in Palestine in 1918;
are fully and vividly described : it played a great part in the final victory on the plain of Esdraelon and the pursuit of the
routed Turks. General Watson is a competent and most
engaging historian.
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