30 OCTOBER 1886, Page 23

The Serjeanes Pocket-Book. By William Gordon. (Gale and Polden, Chatham.)—This

is one of a series of military handbooks. It gives the duties of a non-commissioned officer on home and foreign service.

The author was himself for some time serjeant-major in one of the battalions of the Soots Guards, and knows his subject practically.