SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading are notiee such Boots of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.]
We have received a popular edition of The Rise of Welliagton, by Earl Roberts, V.C. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 6d.) The Commander-in-Chief has added a new preface, dated the last day of March last. "I can bear testimony, not only to the [British soldier's] discipline, courage, and endurance, but also to his uniformly humane conduct towards the inhabitants of the country with which we are fighting." When, later on, he speaks of the "interested and unscrupulous traducers" by whom "our troops in South Africa have been persistently vilified" ho has our hearty sympathy. Doubtless there are good reasons why he should not specify. But it must never be forgotten that the note of calumny was sounded in this country. It was an ex-Minister of War who spoke of "methods of barbarism."
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