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On Army Organization. By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart....

lesson which Sir Archibald Alison seeks to enforce is the neces- sity of " discipline." By this he means something far beyond drilling or training; nothing less than the......

Current Literature.

The British Quarterly Review. October. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —We may be permitted to congratulate the British Quarterly on the publication of its hundredth number. We have......

The Practitioner, October (macmillan), Contains An...

by the editor, Dr. Anstie, on "The Vaccination Question." The writer deals in this number with the first part of his subject, the validity of vaccination. He quotes statistics......

Lost Footsteps. A. Novel. By Joseph Verey. (tinsley...

genius of the studio is such a well-known hero of modern novels that these form a class by themselves ; but Lost Footsteps is not quite a typical specimen, for no less than......

Mary Stanley ; Or, The Secret Ones. 3 Vols. (chapman

and Hall.)— This story consists of two parts, which are not very cleverly woven together. First, we have the adventures of an English governess in Russia, who, after a narrow......