The Coldstream Guards in the Crimea. By Lieutenant - Colonel Ross-of-Bladensburgh, C.B.
(A. D. Innes and Co.) — Colonel Ross.of Bladensburgh has now supplemented his "History of the Coldstream Guards from 1815 to 1885," a review of which appeared in our columns some little time ago, with a small volume containing only the Crimean period of that history. It is the portion which has the greatest interest for the general public, to whose notice we warmly recommend it. Readers of Kinglake's stirring pages will hardly have forgotten the promi- nent part played by the Coldstreams throughout that costly and unfortunate war, nor the share they took in the battles of the Alma and Inkermann, to say nothing of the general operations. Ninety-one Coldstream officers were employed during the war, of whom thirteen never returned, nine being killed in action, three dying of disease, and one of wounds. Seven more were wounded, and seventeen had to be invalided home. Of non-com- missioned officers and men there was a loss of eight hundred and ten. The figures speak rather more eloquently than the author, whose account, though excellently written and most interesting, is studiously plain and unsensational.
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