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MILITARY WORKS-continued.

OPERATIONS OF THE GERMAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, FROM SEDAN TO THE END OF THE WAR OF 1870-1. With Large Official Map. From the Journals of the Head-quarters Staff, by Major WM. BLUME. Translated by E. M. JONES, Major 20th Foot, late Professor of Military History, Sandhurst. Demy 8vo. Price 9s.

"The book is of absolute necessity to the military student. The work is one of high merit and has the advantage of being rendered into fluent English, and is accompanied by an excellent military map."-United Service Gazette.

"The work of translation has been well done; the expressive German idioms have been rendered into clear, nervous English without losing any of their original force; and in notes, prefaces, and introductions, much additional information has been given."-Athenæum.

English dress forms the most valuable addition to our stock of works upon the war that our press has put forth. Major Blume writes with a clear conciseness much wanting in many of his country's historians, and Major Jones has done himself and his original alike justice by his vigorous yet correct translation of the excellent volume on which he has laboured. Our space forbids our doing more than commending it earnestly as the most authentic and instructive narrative of the second section of the war that has yet appeared."-Saturday Review.

"The work of Major von Blume in its THE OPERATIONS OF THE SOUTH ARMY IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1871. Compiled from the Official War Documents of the Head-quarters of the Southern Army. By COUNT HERMANN VON WARTENSLEBEN, Colonel in the Prussian General Staff. Translated by Colonel C. H. VON WRIGHT. Demy 8vo, with Maps. Uniform with the above. Price 6s.

HASTY

INTRENCHMENTS.

By Colonel A.
BRIALMONT. Translated by Lieutenant CHARLES A.
EMPSON, R. A.
Nine Plates. Price 6s.

Demy 8vo. "A valuable contribution to military literature."-Athenæum.

"In seven short chapters it gives plain directions for performing shelter-trenches, with the best method of carrying the neces sary tools, and it offers practical illustrations of the use of hasty intrenchments on the field of battle."-United Service Magazine.

"It supplies that which our own textbooks give but imperfectly, viz., hints as THE

to how a position can best be strengthened
by means... of such extemporised in-

trenchments and batteries as can be thrown
up by infantry in the space of four or five
hours...
deserves to become a standard
military work."-Standard.

"A clever treatise, short, practical and clear."--Investor's Guardian.

"Clearly and critically written."—Wellington Gazette.

ARMY OF THE NORTH-GERMAN CONFEDERATION. A Brief Description of its Organisation, of the different Branches of the Service and their Rôle' in War, of its Mode of Fighting, &c. By a PRUSSIAN GENERAL. Translated from the German by Col. EDWARD NEWDIGATE. Demy 8vo. 5s.

The authorship of this book was erroneously ascribed to the renowned General von Moltke, but there can be little doubt that it was written under his immediate inspiration.

MILITARY WORKS-continued.

CAVALRY FIELD DUTY. By Major-General VON Translated by Captain FRANK S. RUSSELL, 14th limp cloth.

MIRUS.

(King's) Hussars. Crown 8vo,

**This is the text-book of instruction in the German cavalry, and comprises all the details connected with the military duties of cavalry soldiers on service. The translation is made from a new edition, which contains the modifications intro

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duced consequent on the experiences of the late war. The great interest that students feel in all the German military methods, will, it is believed, render this book especially acceptable at the present time.

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Colonel VON VERDY DU VERNOIS. An authorised and accurate Translation by Lieutenant H. J. T. HILDYARD, 71st Foot. Parts I. and II. Demy 8vo. Price 75.

General BEAUCHAMP WALKER says of this work :-"I recommend the first two numbers of Colonel von Verdy's 'Studies' to the attentive perusal of my brother officers. They supply a want which I have often felt during my service in this country, namely, a minuter tactical detail of the minor operations of the war than any but the most observant and for

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[Now ready. tunately placed staff-officer is in a position to give. I have read and re-read them very carefully, I hope with profit, certainly with great interest, and believe that practice, in the sense of these 'Studies,' would be a valuable preparation for manoeuvres on a more extended scale."-Berlin, June, 1872.

FRANCO-GERMAN WAR, 1870-71. FIRST PART :-HISTORY OF THE WAR TO THE DOWNFALL OF THE EMPIRE. FIRST SECTION :-THE EVENTS IN JULY. Authorised Translation from the German Official Account at the Topographical and Statistical Department of the War Office, by Captain F. C. H. CLARKE, R.A. First Section, with Map.

Demy 8vo. 3s.

DISCIPLINE AND DRILL. Four Lectures delivered

to the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers. PAGE. A New and Cheaper Edition. "One of the best-known and coolestheaded of the metropolitan regiments, whose adjutant moreover has lately published an admirable collection of lectures addressed by him to the men of his corps.' -Times.

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By Captain S. FLOOD Price Is.

vate, will be the better for perusing and digesting the plain-spoken truths which Captain Page so firmly, and yet so modestly, puts before them; and we trust that the little book in which they are contained will find its way into all parts of Great Britain."-Volunteer Service Gazette.

LIST. Majors and Captains.
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SENIORITY ARMY By Captain F. B. P. WHITE, 2s. 6d.

65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London.

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Books on Indian Subjects.

THE EUROPEAN IN INDIA.

A HAND-BOOK OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR THOSE PROCEEDING TO, OR RESIDING IN, THE EAST INDIES,

RELATING TO outfits, roUTES, TIME for departuRE, INDIAN CLIMATE, ETC. BY EDMUND C. P. HULL.

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BEING A COMPENDIUM OF ADVICE TO EUROPEANS IN INDIA, RELATING TO THE
PRESERVATION AND REGULATION OF HEALTH,

By R. S. MAIR, M.D., F.R.C.S.E.,
Late Deputy Coroner of Madras,

In 1 vol. Post 8vo. 6s.

"Full of all sorts of useful information to the English settler or traveller in India." -Standard.

"One of the most valuable books ever published in India-valuable for its sound information, its careful array of pertinent facts, and its sterling common sense.

EASTERN

It is

a publisher's as well as an author's 'hit,' for it supplies a want which few persons may have discovered, but which everybody will at once recognise when once the contents of the book have been mastered. The medical part of the work is invaluable."-Calcutta Guardian.

EXPERIENCES.

By L. BOWRING, C.S.I.,

Lord Canning's Private Secretary, and for many years the Chief Commissioner of Mysore and Coorg.

In 1 vol. Demy 8vo. 16s. Illustrated with Maps and Diagrams,

"An admirable and exhaustive geographical, political, and industrial survey." -Athenæum.

"The usefulness of this compact and methodical summary of the most authentic information relating to countries whose welfare is intimately connected with our own, should obtain for Mr. Lewin Bow

ring's work a good place among treatises of its kind."-Daily News.

"Interesting even to the general reader, but more especially so to those who may have a special concern in that portion of our Indian Empire."-Post.

"An elaborately got up and carefully compiled work."-Home News.

A MEMOIR OF THE INDIAN SURVEYS.

BY CLEMENT R. MARKHAM.

Printed by order of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council.
Imperial 8vo. 10s. 6d.

BOOKS ON INDIAN SUBJECTS-continued,

WESTERN INDIA BEFORE AND DURING THE MUTINIES.

PICTURES DRAWN FROM LIFE.

BY MAJOR-GEN. SIR GEORGE LE GRAND JACOB, K.C.S.I., C.B. In 1 vol. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

"The most important contribution to the history of Western India during the Mutinies which has yet, in a popular form, been made public."-Athenæum.

"The legacy of a wise veteran, intent on the benefit of his countrymen rather

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TABLES OF STERLING AND

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IOS. 6d.

A CATALOGUE OF MAPS OF THE BRITISH

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INDIA AND OTHER PARTS OF ASIA. Published by order of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council.

Royal 8vo, sewed. IS.

A continuation of the above, sewed, price 6d., is now ready.

Messrs. Henry S. King & Co. are the authorised agents by the Government for the sale of the whole of the Maps enumerated in this Catalogue.

65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London.

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BRAVE MEN'S FOOTSTEPS. A Book of Example and Anecdote for Young People. By the Editor of "MEN WHO HAVE RISEN." With Four Illustrations. By C. DOYLE.

"The little volume is precisely of the stamp to win the favour of those who, in choosing a gift for a boy, would consult his moral development as well as his temporary pleasure."-Daily Telegraph.

3s. 6d.

"A readable and instructive volume."— Examiner.

"No more welcome book for the schoolboy could be imagined."— Birmingham Daily Gazette.

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INGELOW. A Second Series of "Stories told to a Child."

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Fifteen Illustrations.

Cloth, gilt.

"Full of fresh and vigorous fancy: it is worthy of the author of some of the best of our modern verse."-Standard.

3s. 6d.

"We like all the contents of the 'Little Wonder-Horn' very much."-Athenæum. "We recommend it with confidence.' Pall-Mall Gazette.

STORIES IN PRECIOUS STONES. BY HELEN

ZIMMERN. With Six Illustrations.

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Certainly the book is well worth a perusal, and will not be soon laid down when once taken up."- Daily Bristol Times.

GUTTA-PERCHA WILLIE, THE WORKING

GENIUS. BY GEORGE MACDONALD.
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With Illustrations.

TRAVELLING MENAGERIE. By CHARLES CAMDEN, Author of "Hoity Toity." Illustrated by J. MAHONEY. Crown 8vo.

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THE DESERTED SHIP. A Real Story of the

Atlantic. By CUPPLES HOWE, Master Mariner.
by TOWNLEY GREEN. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

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