The Life of a Regiment : The History of the
Gordon Highlanders. By Lieutenant - Colonel C. Greenhill Gardyne. Vol. II. (D. Douglas. 14s. net.)—Colonel Gardyne carries on the history of the regiment from 1818 down to 1898. The earlier part of this time was not a happy one in the annals of the regiment. When the Crimean War began it was broken up, the men volunteering for regiments that were ordered to the front. It fared better when the Indian Mutiny gave ' another occasion for service. It fought in the Afghan War of 1878, and saw other service in the years that followed. Its achievements in South Africa will form, we suppose, part of the sub- ject of another volume. The author, besides narrating the strictly military history of the regiment, gives some interesting details as to its composition, the physique of the men, &c. In 1890, for instance, we are told that out of eight hundred and forty-one men six hundred and fifty were Scotch. As to stature, four hundred and forty-three were 6 ft. 7 in. and upward in height.
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