SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK,
[Under thts heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Annals of Sandhurst. By Major A. F. Mockler-Ferryman. (W. Heinemann. 10s. net.)—The Royal Military College was first founded at Marlow for a maximum number of four hundred cadets ; one hundred of these to be orphans of officers who had died in service, eighty sons of officers still serving, one hundred eons of noblemen and gentlemen, sixty East India Company cadets, and sixty Royal Artillery cadets (transferred in the following year to Woolwich). Various changes were made, and in 1812 the College was transferred to its present site. About forty years ago what may be called the school was abolished. The College remained, and by degrees, though not by any means by a continuous and steady development, the idea of a place for the higher military education was developed. The author of this handsome volume has a story to tell which will, of course, be interesting, in the first instance, to Sandhurst men, but was worth telling on general grounds. He has taken, it is clear, much pains with his subject, and deserves the thanks of the public.
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