24 NOVEMBER 1894, Page 25

With Wellington in the Battle Smoke. By W. Pimblett. (J.

S. Virtue and Co.)—Here we have the story of the Duke told in a way that will make his achievements comprehensible to young readers. This, at least, is the writer's aim, and we may hope that it has been fairly well accomplished. Military movements, it is true, are not easily realised. They must be told by a writer with a gift of lucid. explanation, and the reader must bring to his task a more concentrated attention than is mu Llly given to a book read for entertainment. Plans of battle would have been useful; such a picture as that which professes to represent "the Battle of Waterloo " must tend to obscure rather than to explain. Both armies and every branch of each seem to be mixed together in inextricable confusion.