Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy. By
Joseph Horsley Mayo. 2 vols. (A. Constable and Co. £3 3s. net.)—It is quite impossible to do justice by any means, or within any space at our command, to this splendid book. Mr. Mayo was for many years in the service of the East India Company and the India Office. From 1882-95, when ill-health compelled his retirement, he filled the post of Assistant Military Secretary. His leisure was devoted to the collection of the materials for this book. Unhappily he did not live to see its completion. For this the public is indebted to a relative, the Rev. Charles Herbert Mayo. When we say that the history of between two and three hundred medals is given in the text, and that the medals themselves, with clasps, Ike., where required, are figured, the reader will have some idea of the extent of the work. The labour which has been expended on the collection of such a mass of facts cannot be estimated, The author bent de re/malice meruit, and we may associate the editor with the praise.
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