8 AUGUST 1885, page 19

A Family Affair.*

IT is melancholy .to notice a book of considerable promise like this when the writer for whom it gave so much pro- mise has passed where this promise can never be fulfilled. A......

Suakrn, 1885.* Ossacna. Accounts Of Our Small Wars,...

the dis- passionate, coldly judicial style which marks the great Staff history of the German operations of 1870-71 are almost wholly wanting. There is no military department......