The Min Campaign. By Colonel F. N. Maude, C.B. Vol.
iii. of the "Special Campaign" Series. (George Allen and Co. 53. net.) .-7-,Colonel Maude is a writer with original ideas and methods, and generally has a very good reason for differing from accepted views and traditions. In this book he offers a vigorous defence of Mack, contending that a man who had attained such a position as his, who could inspire such affection in his officers and such devotion in his troops, was not the incompetent bungler denounced by some of his critics. Merely he was faced and was beaten by new 4Onditions. Colonel Maude suggests an interesting parallel between Napoleon's method of concentrating his numbers at his Chosen point, and the necessity facing a modern general, under aerial reconnaissance, of retaining his troops in a formation en lozenge until he decides upon his time and place for driving home the full weight of the troops behind him.
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