25 JANUARY 1868, Page 20

Europe-t Armaments in 1867. By Captain C. B. Brackenbury, R.A.

(Chapman and Hall.)—Letters written to the Times from Paris form the basis of this volume. Captain Brackenbury describes the heavy ordnance, the light artillery, the small arms, and the naval architecture shown at the Paris Exhibition, enters into questions of rifling, contrasts the merits of steel, cast iron, and wrought iron, and discusses several miscellaneous matters of equal importance. With regard to military uniforms, the censure passed on the English system is worthy of special notice. Let us hope that other officers visited the Paris Exhibition, and saw the superiority of the French dress, which combines "comfort and beauty with simplicity," can be worn as freely as plain clothes, and need not be thrown away in fighting.