22 DECEMBER 1906, Page 26

Britain's Roll of Glory. By D. H. Parry. (Cassell and

Co. 6s.)—This is the record of the " Victoria Cross," a decoration which this year reaches its jubilee. It has been given to five 'hundred and twenty-tivo persons, of whom one hundred and eleven were decorated in the Crimean War, one hundred and eighty-two in the Indian 'Mutiny, and seventy-eight in the Boer War. Mr. Parry has some reinarks on the sale of the medal. This, surely, ought not to be permitted. Government might buy it from the representatives of a deceased holder if they wanted to sell it, and then present it to the regiment of the original holder.