18 JANUARY 1890, Page 23

On Active Service. By W. W. Lloyd. (Chapman and Hall.)—

In twenty coloured drawings, executed with plenty of spirit, Mr. Lloyd, who has been himself a soldier, portrays various experiences, grave and gay, of campaigning. We begin with the perplexities of a sybaritic young gentleman who is much troubled by the problem how to reduce his necessaries to the weight of 10 lb. ; see life in a troop-ship ; and we then have a number of lively sketches of picket and cutpost duty, and of a variety of other scenes, chiefly located, we see, in South Africa.