The History of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders. By R. P.
Dunn- Pattison. (W. Blackwood and Sons. £2 2s. net.)—It is quite impossible to do justice to this book, a handsome quarto of more than four hundred pages, crowded with interesting details, on the collection of which the author has spent much labour, helped by not a little private favour and regimental camaraderie. The regiment, now officially known as the First Battalion of the Princess Louise's Argyllshire and Sutherlandshire Highlanders, was raised in 1794. The task was undertaken by the Duke of Argyll, who handed it over to Duncan Campbell of Lochnell. The men were found without much difficulty, not indeed in Argyll- shire, which had been not a little drained by previous levies, but in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The terms on which officers were engaged seem to us onerous. A subaltern had to pay from £200 to £300 for his commission and raise thirty men, paying £21 for every one short. The services of the regiment we cannot attempt to follow. It went through the Peninsular Campaign except for an interval when it was sent to Walcheren. It was on the field at Waterloo, but too far to the right to take part in the fighting. It was in India during the Mutiny, and went through the South African Campaign. Wherever it is possible Mr. Dunn- Pattison supports and illustrates his narrative with original decuments, some of them curious and interesting in a high degree.
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