The Bio graph in Battle. By W. R. L. Dickson.
(T. Fisher ljnwin. 6s.)—" We are all familiar with the biograph," says the writer of the prefatory note to this volume, and we have all of us read much about the war, "but the story of the combina- tion of the two is a thing absolutely new in the annals of war or science." And this is the new thing that we get in this volume. Our function with regard to it is fully discharged when we tell our readers what they will find in it. It contains, then, a personal narrative of what Mr. Dickson went through in seeking objects on which to exercise his art. This is, of course, not unlike other stories of adventures. Naturally, from the writer's occupation, there is as much movement in the narrative as could be got into it. Mr. Dickson was never at the rear. On the contrary, the more he was to the front, the better was he pleased. The nar- rative of adventures, therefore, will be found good reading And then there are the illustrations. Of course they suffer somewhat from being reduced. But they are singularly interest- ing. Among these we may mention "Colonel Long's Artillery Horses, Battle of Colenso," "Battle of Spion Rep, Ambulance Crossing the Tugela," "After the Battle, Corteges of Stretcher Bearers," "Some of the Wounded from Spion Kop," and, in one way as sad as any, "Fair Sample of How the Horses Looked in Ladysmith." There is no need to commend this book.
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