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Fiebi-Marsha/ Count Moltke, 1800-1878. By Professor L. Muller. Translated by

Percy E. Pinkerton, and edited by Captain H. M. Hosier. (W. B. Sonnenschein.)—The author certainly plunges in mediae res, for his first sentence is, "it was the 2nd of July, 1866." Yet, if there is anything in which the rubs referred to does not apply, it is a bio- graphical sketch. But though we do not understand why, we are first presented with an account of "the Bohemian Campaign of 1866," and then taken back to "Life from 1800 to 1856." Apart from this, we have nothing but praise for the book. It requires some close attention to be able to follow its strategical details (an attention which would have been made easier by maps), but it is well worth the trouble.