SHIPP'S MEMOIRS.* IERE is a new edition of the Memoirs
of our friend JOHN SHIPP. A thousand copies of the first have been sold ; and the present is '?nricliecl with two additional chapters, on which the editor is disposed, and with reason, to lay considerable stress. It may be difficult, by the way, to tell what the work owes to this editor; for he has taken ,-evr liberties, he informs us, with the manuscript, and has rarely :•,thecked the flow of Jotix SHIPP'S rhetoric. The new matter of this .(lition consists of " Hints to Young Subalterns," and remarks on .jorporal Punishment. These are deserving, we should venture to • .!'hink, of the attention of military men, from the close and extensive `rbservation on which they are founded.; and they must recommend themselves to unprofessional readers, by the good sense and kindly eeling that pervade them. The " Hints" are, to be sure, somewhat mute ; but they breathe an enthusiastic love of the profession to • 'Lich they refer,-they are applicable to other walks of life, and have them that which is fitted to give an impulse to honourable ambi- -;on, be its objects what they may. On duelling, his sentiments are .pposed to the practice which military men, and some martialists of :11e press, our contemporaries, sanction. JOHN SHIPP'S chief fault is ne of manner merely-a tendency, at times, to say too much, and to * Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp, late a Lieutenant in
• e 87th Regiment. Written by Himself. Second Edition. 3 vole. London, 1829. urst, Chance, and Cu.
say it in rather too lofty a way. His merits we formerly dwelt upon, and the present edition has added a good deal to their amount.
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