Stirring Stories of Peace and War. By James Macaulay, M.A.,
M.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Here are between thirty and forty well-chosen narratives from history, ancient and modern. Perhaps it is a little pedantic to wish that they had been arranged in some kind of order. Young people's notions of time and place are often somewhat chaotic, and the sense of order will not be developed if they read straight through (as, indeed, they may well do) a volume which begins with Lieutenant Pottinger's defence of Herat in 1838, and after introducing us to Chinese Gordon, Nunez de Balboa, Cortes, the Due d'Eaghien, and a whole company of other notabilities, brings as, not far from the end of the volume, to Xenophon and th3 retreat of the Ten Thousand. But this is the only criticism we have to pass on a well-executed volume, and this, so far as it shows the variety of the materials which Dr. Macaulay has worked up, may well be taken as praise.
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