2 JUNE 1838, Page 18

Guards, Hussars, and Infantry, is a tale of a twofold

kind. The scenes, laid in camps, hospitals, and the convivia of doubtful characters or downright blackguards, seem often taken from llk• the story has been invented by the author, to serve as a thready which to string his adventures together ; and is as wild and V probable as the inventions of mere soldiers and sailors usuallynres As a fiction the book is worthless ; but its pictures of military life, though coarse and literal, have an air of vraisemblance, and may afford some sort of amusement to those who are not deterred by the low moral tone which seems to pervade mess-rooms and marching regiments.