LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
AMATEUR MILITARY CRITICS.
[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPErT tTOR.")
SIE,—It may amuse some of your readers to see how the amateur military critic flourished two thousand years ago. 2Emilins Pauline, being about to take up the supreme com- mand in Macedonia, addressed the Roman people to this effect :—
"In every club, good heavens ! I may say at every dinner. table, there are gentlemen who lead armies into Macedonia, who know where our camps ought to be pitched, what posts ought to be garrisoned, at what time and by what pass the enemy's country ought to be entered, where our depilts ought to be put, by what routs., be it by sea or land, supplies ought to be conveyed, when we ought to fight and when stand on the defensive. Nn-it only do they lay down the law as to what should be done, but it anything is done differently from what they prescribe, they arraign the General as if he were on his trial."—(Livy aliv. 22)
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