18 AUGUST 1888, Page 24

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

by Lieutenant H. de B. Hovell, and Notes on Army Signalling, by Captain E. T. C. Bower. (Gale and Polden, Chatham.) —The author of Soldiers' Shooting asserts very emphatically that the time of the men which should be given to shooting is wasted in the learning of evolutions. "War is the soldier's calling, not drill," he remarks ; it seems a truism, but it is often forgotten. Is there not a story of a German Colonel who, after the Franco- German War, addressed his men thus,—" Now, my children, as this interruption is over, let us get back to what is our real business—our drill "?