This work contains a very full account of the present seat of War in Spain.
“Volumes of great value and attraction: we would say, in a word, they afford us the most complete account of Spain in every respect which has issued from the press.”—Literary Gazette.
“The value of the book is in its matter and its facts. If written upon any country it would have been useful, but treating of one like Spain, about which we know almost nothing, but of which it is desirable to know so much, Captain Cook’s Sketches must be considered an acquisition to the library.”—Spectator.
“These volumes comprise every point worthy of notice, and the whole is so interspersed with lively adventure and description; so imbued with a kindly spirit of good nature, courting and acknowledging attention, as to render it attractive reading.”—United Service Gazette.
“No one could either pretend to write or converse upon this subject without preparing himself by a previous perusal of this instructive work.”—Metropolitan.
AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLES AND CONSTRUCTION OF
MILITARY BRIDGES,
And the Passage of Rivers in Military Operations.
BY GENERAL SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS, BART. K.S.C. &c. &c.
The Second Edition, containing much additional Matter and Plates,
8vo. price 20s. boards.
“Of this valuable work we expressed a very high opinion when it was first published; and now that the able author has added much important new matter to it, we need only say that it is worthy of his own high reputation as a tactician and Military Engineer; and that no soldier in Europe can know his business thoroughly without consulting it.”—Literary Gazette.