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The most difficult thing in the world for an army

is to keep on falling back when opposed to superior numbers. This is what our Army has been doing, as cheerfully as if it were on Salisbury Plain, for the past fortnight. Truly we can say with Napier : " Then was seen with what majesty the British soldier fights." But when we give the British soldier his meed of praise, we must not forget his gallant comrades in arms. The French soldiers have had to contend with condi- tions just as trying as ours, and have come out of them with no less military distinction.

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