Two Years at the Front with the Mounted Infantry :
the Diary of De' utenant B. Moeller. With Memoir by Lieutenant-Colonel L. R. C. Boyle, H.A.C. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—Bernard Moeller, the eon of a merchant in the City of London, enlisted as a private in the Honourable Artillery Company. When a call was made for Volunteers in London in the early days of the Boer War he offered himself. By that time he was a Lieutenant. Meanwhile be had diligently studied military subjects, and was bettor acquainted with them, it is probable, than nine-tenths of the officers in the Regular Army. He landed at Cape Town on February 1st, 1900, went almost immediately to the front, and was in the thick of the fighting almost continuously for close upon two years. He was mortally wounded in the early morning of December 19th, 1901, and died four days afterwards. (His column was attacked by Boers disguised in British uniforms, and he met his death in trying to rescue a comrade who was about to be shot after having surrendered.) His diary is the simple record of a strenuous, alert, keen-witted soldier. It is not suited, we should say, for continuous reading; but any one who will follow it with a good map will find it repay the pains. And it should serve for materials for the historian of the war. As time goes on the actual combatants become more and more articulate, much, we should say, to the gain of the reader of the future.
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