General Todleben's History of the Defence of Sebastopol. A Review.
By W. Howard Russell. (Tinsley Brothers.)—For the substance of General Todleben'a splendid work we must refer our readers to the elaborate review which appeared in our columns shortly after the pub- Coition of the original work. We have here, from the pen of The Times' special correspondent in the Crimea, what is indeed " a review " in this sense, that it appeared as such in The Times, but is rather an abstract. We do not say this by way of complaint, for the latter is the more use- ful of the two. General Todleben's work is so costly as to be beyond the reach of the ordinary reader, and Mr. Russell gives him in a cheap portable volume the substance of what would be otherwise practically Inaccessible. The review is slightly enlarged from the pages of The Times by judiciously chosen extracts, and positive errors are pointed out either by critical remarks or succinct notes.
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