1 FEBRUARY 1873, Page 23

Military Men I Have Met. By E. Dyne Fenton. Illustrated

by E. Linley Sambourne. (Tinsley.)—Mr. Sambotume's pencil is at least more uniformly successful than his collaborateur's pen. The figures— horses excepted, for these are sadly wooden—are good, marked by a quiet humour which produces its effect without recourse to extravagance or caricature. The literary sketches are of various merit. There are, we should say, far too many of them. Between several the differences are not sufficiently great to justify a separate description. "Private Cornaylius O'Floort " is, to our thinking, the best of thorn all. It is a curious characteristic of this, as of other books dealing with military Life, that they talk of everything except soldiering.