Our Soldiers. By W. H. G. Kingston, author of "Peter
the Whaler," &c. (Griffith and Farran.)—British Enterprise beyond the Seas. By J. H. Fyfe, author of "Triumphs of Invention." (Nelson and Sons.)— These two books, both of which are designed mainly for juvenile readers, appear to us to have so much in common as to justify us in coupling them together. Mr. Kingston's volume is a collection of anecdotes of the campaigns and brilliant deeds of the British army during the reign of Queen Victoria ; and its object is, as its author somewhat affectedly observes, "to show the stuff which filla our soldier's jackets, and that that stuff is as good as ever." We need scarcely say that India, in one form or another, furnishes the material of at least three-fourths of the book. Mr. Fyfe's work contains a brief and, as far as we can judge, a
trustworthy account of the foundation and some of the physical pecu- liarities of our principal colonies.
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