With the Zhob Field - Force. By Captain - Crawford McFall: (W. Heinemann.)—The
Zhob Field-Force, as it turned ont, had very little fighting to do. It was too formidable for. the tribesmen who had provoked, the expedition to resist, and theZhob country
(every one may not know that it is in the North of British Baluchistan) was pacified and opened for the traveller and trader of the future. Captain McFall makes something, but hardly as much as a more distinct literary gift might have enabled him to do, out of his subject. And his pen is well aided by his pencil, from which we get nearly a hundred illustrations, many of them both spirited and interesting. It is pleasant to read about an expedition so well managed as this seems to have been. Sir George White, now Commander-in-Chief in India, had the management, and seems to have done it admirably. The ex- perience itself may very well have been less agreeable. Mahseer fishing seems to have been the only recreation. The tribesmen complained that the strangers drank up all their water — " epotaque flumina Medo"—and caught all their fish.
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