Discipline and Drill. By Captain S. Flood Page. (H. S.
King.)—This volume contains four lectures delivered before the "London Scottish Volunteers" by the adjutant of the regiment. We wish every volunteer corps could hear words of advice so sensible and plain-spoken. There are not a few points of ominous similarity between the French armies, which wore so terribly crumpled by the "discipline and drill" of the German troops, and our own volunteer forces. There are officers who do not know their business, and men who do not know how to obey. Nothing, we should say, could be better for them than to have the opportunity of listening to what a thoroughly competent and well-educated soldier, not looking down upon them de haut en bas, but having a genuine interest in them, and belief in their good qualities and possible efficiency, has to say by way of warning, reproof, and advice. Why should not commanding officers get this admirable little volume, and read it, mutatis mutandis, to their men ?
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