EARL ROBERTS, K.G.,
Author of ‘Forty-One Years in India.’
Large crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
The writer attacks the present armament of cavalry, with whom the sword or lance is the dominant weapon, and the rifle the subordinate weapon. All forms of compromise being impossible, he advocates the abolition of the steel weapon, and the conversion of cavalry into the highest and most perfect type of Mounted Riflemen. His historical argument is based mainly upon the South African War, in the course of which steel weapons were abandoned altogether, and an exceedingly high type of mounted rifleman developed; but he traces the slow revolution in mounted methods, wrought by improved firearms, from the middle of the last century up to the present day, culminating in the Manchurian War, where, as in South Africa, the steel was practically of no account. The author’s view is that the education and efficiency not only of the cavalry, but of all our mounted troops, home or colonial, regular or volunteer, mounted infantry, mounted riflemen, or yeomanry, depends on clear notions as to the relative value of the rival weapons, and he shows what confusion and obscurity the undefined functions of the steel weapon import into any consideration of the vitally important functions of the mounted rifleman. He advocates one pure type, under a single name—Cavalry—for all purposes.
A HISTORY OF
THE LONDON HOSPITAL.
By E. W. MORRIS,
Secretary of the London Hospital.
With 16 pages of Illustrations and several Plans. One Volume.
Large crown 8vo., cloth. 6s. net.