6 JUNE 1891, Page 11

[NOTE—By an absurd slip of the pen, for which we

cannot account, the paper on South Africa quoted as an authority in our article of last week, was attributed to the Civil and Military Gazette, so far as we know, a non-existent publication in England. It appeared in the United Service 3fagasine, the conductors of which have since April, 1890, taken pains to publish only articles by the highest experts on the subjects of which they treat. This particu- lar one, as we did not doubt when we quoted his work, had especial opportunities of knowing thoroughly what he was writing about.]