28 MAY 1898, Page 25

Thirty-nine Tears in the Army. By Sir Charles Gordon. (

Swan, Sonnensehein and Co. 12s.)—Of the Indian Mutiny most readers are daily exclaiming, " Ohe, jam satis !" and even of the siege and capitulation of Paris Sir Charles Gordon fails to make a story calculated to hold one's attention. Still, a great many well-known incidents in recent Anglo-Indian history are collected in the first half of the book, and the addition of an index facilitates the task of verification—to the historian, that is, whose laborious duty it may be to examine all original records of our century.

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