The Old Colonel and the Ohl Corps. By Lioulonant - Colonel C.
E. S. Gloig. (Chapman and Hall.)—"Theoretically," so runs the first sen- tence of the first chapter, "the administrative unit is in our own Army, as it is in 'Om Prussian, the company." But, as Colonel Gleig proceeds to point out, practically the unit is the regiment. To keep this efficient, never to reduce it bolow its proper numbers, not to do it such injury as is ofton done by drafting its boat man out of it,—this is the theme of our author's discourse. We do not bind ourselves to an approval of all his opinions,—thoro ace, besides, many things in his volume of which a civilian can hardly form an opinion,—but we feel quite sure that he is right in the main. That ho knows what he is talking about, and that he can say what he has got to say in a good-humoured and sensible way, is perfectly evident.
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