The Last Post. By Mildred G. Dooner. (Simpkin, Marshall, and
Co. 10s. 6d. net.),—The frontispiece, drawn by far. W. ,14
Wyllie, LEA., pictures a bugler sounding the call known as "The Last Post." The book itself is a catalogue of all the officers, British and Colonial, who died on the field of battle, or in hospital, whether from wounds or from disease, during the South African War. The roll of names covers four hundred and thirty- nine pages, and there is an appendix which contains the record of thirteen war correspondents (Mary Kingsley and G. W. Steevene among them) and ten nursing sisters, doubtless an incomplete list. This is a volume which needs no criticism. Miss Dooner has taken, it is clear, a great amount of pains to put together all that could be found out about the dead. Sometimes the record is very brief indeed, especially in the case of Colonial officers. The proportion of "killed in action" and "died of wounds" is, we observe, about three-fifths of the whole.
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