31 MAY 1902, Page 26

Our Battalion. By L. Raven-Hill. (Punch Office. 6s. net.)—The "

Volunteer Movement" is sufficiently strong to stand being laughed at. Indeed, after the South African experiences, some of the jokes that are aimed at them are a little out of date. Still, there is nothing ill-natured in the " chaff " which is here em- ployed ; if there is anything in it, it is the Government that should feel it, by "Government" being meant the subordinate military officials. With them, whatever Commander-in-Chief and high- placed soldiers may say or do, the dominant spirit is still too often that indicated by the current phrase "those d—d Volun- teers." The letterpress here is sufficiently good ; the drawings are excellent.