26 OCTOBER 1901, Page 22

• The Military Forces of the Crown. By Colonel W.

H. Daniel. Edited by T. Miller Maguire. (Cassell and Co. 5s.)—This is a valuable summary of the military forces of the Empire, giving satisfactory results, at least on paper, not wholly, we trust, out of keeping with actual facts. We have now, according to the latest returns, eight hundred and ninety-four thousand eight hundred .and sixty-five effective troops, more than one hundred thousand in excess of the regular establishment.