Military Topography. By Major-General W. E. Montague. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This
is a practical book intended for beginners. The author wastes neither time nor. space, but goes directly to his subject, and puts his instructions into plain words. His volume is divided into five parts—" Elementary," " The Field Book," " Form Lines," " Advanced Sketches," and " Sections." Forty diagrams with prefatory notes, to serve as problems and examples, follow.—At the same time we may mention two useful little manuals published by Messrs. Gale and Polden. One, Catch-Questions on Infantry Drill, has the laudable object of helping a candidate through his examination; the other, Telling.
offand Posting a Piequet conveys instructions to young officers set to perform these and kindred tasks, such as " Outpost Duty," "Arranging Advanced Guards," &c. The author of both is Lieutenant G. D'Arcy-Evans. Knowledge of these matters is now demanded not only of officers in the regular Army, but of Volunteers, whose practical knowledge of their profession, if we compare them with what they were a quarter of a century ago, is, beyond all question, vastly increased.
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