The Temps prints a very interesting letter from a correspon-
dent who followed the Yeomanry manouvres on Salisbury PlA41. The Yeomanry were, he says, well mounted and well drilled, and showed a good knowledge of scouting. Many of the officers, he notes, had served in the Regular Army, while others had obtained wax experience in South Africa, and thus possessed experience which far surpasses that of the French Reserve officer. The discipline he found thoroughly good, though it had not that "feudal stiffness" so noticeable in Germany. The officers seemed sure of their men. The present writer, though he cannot claim to be an expert, may point out that his oWn personal observation strongly coincides with that of the able writer in the Temps. In the new Yeomanry, which, it is only fair to say, we owe to Lord Midleton, the country possesses a great asset. This addition of twenty- five thousand mounted men, together with the great improve- ment in organisation brought about by Mr. Haldane's Territorial scheme, constitute genuine improvements. What it now wanted is to fill the skeleton Territorial scheme by a system of universal military training.
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