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WITH A MEMOIR BY FIELD-MARSHal earl ROBERTS, V.C. THE SCIENCE OF By Colonel G. F. R. HENDERSON, C.B. Author of Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War,' &c. Edited by Captain NEILL MALCOLM, D.S.O. With a Photogravure Portrait of the Author and 4 Maps. 8vo. 14s. net. 'Like everything which Colonel Henderson wrote, this book is deserving of the closest study on the part of the publicist and the soldier. It is full of wisdom, and in most countries would have attracted general attention.'-DAILY MAIL. The papers take a very wide scope, and as they fascinated when being delivered from the platform so they fascinate as they speak in print. The last essay, proofs of which Colonel Henderson corrected just before his death, is a masterly treatise on a question which is to-day demanding serious attention. We take leave of an entrancing book by saying it should be found in every regimental library.'-MILITARY MAIL. TACTICS APPLIED TO SCHEMES. 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Its further distinction is the amount of new matter and first-hand observation contained in it.... All through the book the combination of the good naturalist, careful sportsman, and consummate artist is seen.' PALL MALL gazette. 'It is not all pure science; there is a deal of knowledge in the book alsoknowledge of the world, of sport, and of country matters generally, which greatly enlivens its pages, while detracting no whit from its scientific value. The author has some good stories to tell, and tells them well. The book will undoubtedly take rank henceforth as the standard authority on British mammals.' DAILY MAIL. The publication of the first volume of Mr. J. G. Millais' great work marks an epoch in the literature of science. It is the magnum opus of modern natural history.... It is a combined triumph of scientific accuracy, actual experience, and of art. In it are comprehended the three main essentials in a work dealing with any fauna-first, scientific accuracy of arrangement; secondly, good pictures both in colour and in black and white, drawn from life; and thirdly, exact information on the distribution and the life history of the various species.' SCOTSMAN. 'This magnificent volume, although only one of three that are to complete the addition made to the literature of natural history by the whole book which it begins, is already remarkable enough to take a place of authority.' NATURE. 'As an author of a work like the present, Mr. Millais has one incomparable advantage over the great majorityif not, indeed, over all-of his fellownaturalists in this country, namely, that he is a great painter. For many years this splendid work will probably remain one of the standard authorities on British mammals, and in the matter of illustration it will most likely be always without a rival.' MR. FRANK e. Beddard, F.R.S., IN 'THE DAILY CHRONICLE.' 'This is unquestionably the most sumptuous work concerning the British fauna that has ever been published. The historian of the British mammalia has but limited material at his disposal. Among these historians Mr. Millais will take a leading place, for he has, as far as we can see, collated all that there is to be said upon the subject.' BADMINTON MAGAZINE. 'The letterpress is for the most partwhere technical detail does not enforce sedate treatment-particularly bright and entertaining; at least it will be found so by all who are interested in the subject which the author writes from the store of abundant knowledge. . . . It is hard to say whether Mr. Millais' beautiful drawings or his descriptions of the creatures they portray are most worthy of admiration. To alter slightly the meaning of a familiar phrase, he shows them in their habits as they live.' LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO., 39 Paternoster Row, London, E.C.; New York, and Bombay. SIXTH IMPRESSION. 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These words express a just conception of the biographer's office, and Mrs. Creighton. has carried out her plan with loyalty and ability. All the materials necessary for forming a judgment on this eminent and many-sided man are here. No reserve was needed, and the result of perfect frankness is only to increase respect for the character described. Few wives, we may add, could explain so adequately every point in a life so masculine and so complex. . . it should be good for everybody to read the Life of a man who had so many different titles to distinction, and yet remained to the last as simple as an unspoiled child, and as bright.' Glasgow Herald.-'It is a fitting and worthy record of the life of one who said that he would like his epitaph to be "He tried to write true history." . . . There is much wit and wisdom in this book, but the best thing about it is that it gives a faithful and attractive picture of a man who was both intellectually great and eminently loving and lovable.' 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