MILITARY WORKS-continued. THE 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. Demy 8vo. Nine Plates. Price 6s. "A valuable contribution to military literature."-Athenæum. "In seven short chapters it gives plain directions for forming shelter - trenches, with the best method of carrying the necessary 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 to how a position can best be strengthened by means. . . of such extemporised intrenchments 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. CAVALRY FIELD DUTY. By Major-General Von Mirus. Translated by Captain Frank S. Russell, 14th (King's) Hussars. 8vo, limp cloth. 7s. 6d. **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 Crown 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. THE 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. 35. 65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London. MILITARY WORKS-continued. STUDIES IN LEADING TROOPS. By 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. 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 manœuvres on a more extended scale."-Berlin, June, 1872. DISCIPLINE AND DRILL. Four Lectures delivered to the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers. By Captain S. Flood Page. A New and Cheaper Edition. Price Is. "One of the best-known and coolest- "The very useful and interesting work. 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. THE SUBSTANTIVE SENIORITY ARMY LIST, Majors and Captains. By Captain F. B. P. White, 1st W. I. Regiment. 8vo, sewed. 2s. 6d. India and the East. 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, &c. By Edmund C. P. Hull. With a MEDICAL GUIDE FOR ANGLO-INDIANS. 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 I vol. "Full of all sorts of useful information "One of the most valuable books ever WESTERN INDIA BEFORE AND Post 8vo. 65. 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. DURING THE MUTINIES. Pictures drawn from Life. By Major-Gen. Sir George Le Grand "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 Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. than on the acquisition of fame."—London and China Express. "Few men more competent than himself to speak authoritatively concerning Indian affairs."-Standard. 65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London. INDIA AND THE EAST-continued. EASTERN EXPERIENCES. By L. Bowring, C.S.I., Lord Canning's "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 EDUCATIONAL COURSE OF Illustrated with Maps and 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. SECULAR SCHOOL BOOKS FOR INDIA. Edited by J. S. Laurie, of the Inner Temple, Barrister- PROSPECTUS. India has, of late years, made rapid strides in the department of Public Instruction; but, comparing the vast population with the existing provision for educating the school-going section thereof, much, obviously, remains to be done. Various as that population is in language, traditions, customs, and religion, there seems but one way of supplying, at one and the same time, educational wants of so diverse a character. That way emphatically consists in the provision of means of instruction on a uniform plan, and available for all sects and classes alike. 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Like all beginnings, his present instalments are necessarily somewhat meagre and elementary; but he only awaits official and public approval to complete, within a comparatively brief period, his contemplated plan of a specific and fairly comprehensive series of works in the various leading vernaculars of the Indian continent. Meanwhile, those on his general catalogue may be found suitable, in their present form, for use in the Anglo-vernacular and English schools of India. The following Works are now ready :THE FIRST HINDUSTANI READER, stiff linen wrapper GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA, with Maps and Historical Appendix. tracing the growth of the British Empire in Hindustan. 128 pp. Cloth. In the Press. ELEMENTARY GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA. FACTS AND FEATURES OF INDIAN HISTORY, in a series of alternating Reading Lessons and Memory Exercises. 65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London. INDIA AND THE EAST-continued. A MEMOIR OF THE INDIAN SURVEYS. By Clement R. Markham. 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