22 AUGUST 1908, Page 23

An Author in the Territorials. By Coulson Kernahan. (C. Arthur

Pearson. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Kernahan has earned the praise of his fellow-citizens for setting their duty before them, first and foremost by example, and in the second place by preoept cour- teously conveyed. The middle class, upper and lower, does less than any other in the matter of national defence. Volunteer battalions which were in old days almost wholly recruited from them had come, with a few exceptions, to be drawn from artisans, when the new system was inaugurated. Mr. Kernahan relates his experiences, how he learnt his drills, how he fared in camp, at this or that parade, at mess, &c., in a pleasant fashion. His little volume ought to be widely read, and can hardly fail to be read with profit.