Sons of Victory. By 0. V. Caine. (Nisbet and Co.
5s.)—Now that the Russian armies are in the field, it is not inappropriate to have a story in which Suvoroff is a conspicuous personage. We are permitted to see the great man himself,—a quite enigmatic person, who sometimes seemed to be a god and some- times a buffoon; who made extraordinary mistakes, or what looked like them, but contrived to win victories over the best generals of his time. It so chanced that be never stood face to face with Napoleon ; and one is inclined to say that it was a pity, so much did the military methods of the two resemble each other. Mr. Caine, then, has an excellent subject. He has studied the authorities carefully, and he has interwoven with the military story an interesting tale of the hero's fortunes. Altogether, this may be put among the best books of its kind.
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