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Tactics and the Landscape. By Captain T. Bedford Franklin. (Gale

and Polden. 3a net.)—Most military students, like the majority of other people, find it difficult to visualize the land- scape represented by a map. Much nonsense is written in tactical examinations by those who have not learnt the art of map-reading, which aims at answering the question what can be seen from a given spot. Captain Franklin's useful little book supplements a contoured map with a series of land- scape sketches by Mr. M. M. Williams, explains their con- nexion very lucidly, and should be of great service to all

those town-bred Volunteers who are now working at the rudiments of practical soldiering.