3 DECEMBER 1898, Page 29

With Fife and Drum. Edited by Alfred H. Miles. (Hutchinson

and Co.)—These "true stories of military life and adventure" are, for the most part, well told, and recall some of the most stirring passages in our annals. They gain an additional interest from the circumstance that they are all based on fact, while some are actual records of personal experience. The best, we think, of the former class are " Waterloo, the Day after the Battle," and "Barba Yanni, the Parguinote " ; and of the latter, "The Disaster of El Hamet," and " The Story of Major Andre."