[to Ter Enrros 01 The " Spectator."' Sir, — May I Recall
the cause of the British regiments ad- vancing with drums sounding ? The Duke had given orders that the signal for their advance was to be a drum sounding. Their commander's......
Books.
NAPOLEONIC STATESWANSHIP IN GERMANY.* IT is perhaps an arguable point how far the world has been the gainer by the process of national consolidation which has been the most......
Minden Drums.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SpEcrwron."] Sin, — There is a story in Kinglake, if I remember rightly, that since the battle there was a secret tradition in one of the regiments of "......
Poetry.
THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER. SUMMER is on the sea ; grey-blue it spreads, Smooth, featureless, save where in grey-white line The murmuring ripples mark the grey-brown sands, Or......
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