tirEsc studies of four soldiers of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries—namely, Marshal Maurice de Saxe, Major-General Sir Robert Rolls Gillespie, Lord Peterborough, and Major-
General James Wolfe—are selected from a number of" after dinner" lectures delivered by the author at Cambridge in his
role of Director of Military Studies in the University. Col. Thoniton's main purpose was to interest his hearers in military history ; but, owing to the fact that his audience came to him "after a long and busy day," he realized that some biographi- cal material of the lighter sort must be introduced, lest sounds peculiar to slumber" should assert themselves. We do not imagine that the author had any difficulty in keeping sleep at bay. He has a naturally light and " human " touch ; and his book, while it remains one for the student and should specially commend itself to young officers, -whose patronage is directly solicited, will be read with keen enjoyment by all readers who enjoy good biography. The volume is well fur- nished with maps.
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