“The present volume is to the full as pleasant, and, what is still more strange, as original as the last. Criticism would become a sinecure if many such volumes were written: all left for us is to admire and recommend.”—New Monthly Magazine.
“If you have military adventures to relate, take pen in hand, and relate them in the pleasant, cheerful, and agreeable manner, in which John Kincaid, the prince of adjutants and good fellows, relates his. Read his Random Shots, in order to give you an idea of such matters, for few there are who have seen more shots fired than the gallant captain of the rifles.”—Fraser’s Magazine.
“The present volume is likely to add to his reputation. It is a useful appendix to the larger works of Napier and other military commentators. It is never dull, tedious, technical, or intricate.”—Times.
“Those who have read Captain Kincaid’s Adventures in the Rifle Brigade will seize this volume with avidity, and having dashed through it, will lay it down with only one feeling of regret—that it is not longer.”—News.
“His book is full of genuine humour, without one particle of the trickery sometimes resorted to for the purpose of supplying the place of wit.”—Sun.
“This is a most racy, spiritedly sketchy performance.”—Court Journal.
In Two Volumes, post 8vo. price 21s.
ADMIRAL NAPIER’S
ACCOUNT OF THE
WAR IN PORTUGAL
BETWEEN
DON PEDRO AND DON MIGUEL,
WITH PLANS OF HIS ACTION OFF
CAPE ST. VINCENT.
“An excellent and spirit-stirring book—plain, honest, and straightforward—the very stuff of which the web of history alone should be composed. This is indeed an honest, fair, and impartial history.”—Morning Chronicle.
“In spirit and in keeping, from beginning to end, Admiral Napier’s ‘War in Portugal’ is the happiest picture we could conceive of the hero of the battle off Cape St. Vincent—its especial excellence consisting in a regardless bluntness of manner and language that is quite admirable and delightful.”—Monthly Review.