31 MAY 1913, Page 29

We are glad to welcome a new regimental magazine—the Manchester

Regiment Gasette (Sherratt and Hughes, ad.). Such a gazette, recording all the regimental news, and not forgetting the latest regimental joke or leaving the caricaturist unemployed, is an excellent instrument of cohesion. The battalions learn of one another's doings, and former members of the regiment can keep in touch with it by subscribing to the gazette. Besides, a regimental editor may hope to discover some budding Clausewitz or Henderson. The standard of literary accomplishment in the Army is high at present. Military history is the most fascinating field of discovery, and it is not beyond the aspiration of a good regimental editor to capture by means of lucid historical studies the imagination of non-commissioned officers and men.