Dundonald had been a soldier in 1Vashington's army, or (equally
absurdly) had fought wit la I he Boers instead of against them, or anyhow had found SOW(' sphere fur his inventiveness and originality where cramping officialism was not and political pull had not begun to poison life, his name would have been acclaimed as that of a great soldier. As it is, great- ness has perhaps passed him by despite his many gifts. But the Army knows in him a keen and experienced soldier with strong views on cavalry reform and on the paramount necessity (so bloodily enforced by the Great War) of employing " crowds
. of machine-guns," and assme who organized and tried to keep
partisan politics out of the Canadian Militia. It is with throe aspects of his activities that his book My Army Life mainly deals. But all the world affectionately remembers that he, is the grandson of the immortal, if eccentric, Cochrane, who has transmitted to his descendant more than a touch of his daring and brilliance. This is a book to be read.
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