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London, England, 1855-10-20 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

lance and physic. There is no better cure for the
one or preventive for the other than gymnastic
exercises ; and if the physical part of education' were
more generally attended to in this country we should
have a liner, better developed, more muscular, and
more healthy race to boast of. In this huge city
alone, where some million of men, more or less, are
collected, we have about one public and two private
gymnasiums established ! With reference to this
want Captain Chiosso, who is well known as the
.spocesaor, to Captain Clias, appears to We invented
a siostingenious gymnastic machine, taking tip little
roost, and at which, by various arrangements of
weights and pullies, every possible exercise may be
taken, bringing into play the whole muscular system,
promoting health, developing the form, and giving
strength and tone to the constitution. Captain
Chiosso's little book contains a brief description of
this machine, and full rules to be observed during
exercise. We cordially recommend attention to this
suhject to young and old, to dyspeptic patients, and
to all suffering from malformation or det'ormity.

The Crimean Enterprise. By Captain Gleig, 02nd
Highlanders. London : Blepkwoods.
A SERIES of letters, formerly addressed to the Morning
Herald, commenting upon the various phases of the
Crimean expedition. Captain Gleig, who has appa-
rently studied the theoretical part of the art of war
to soma purpose, on more than one occasion pre-
dicted certain results from the position and move-
ments of the two armies—the allied and itussian—
with singular fidelity to consequent facts. For in-
stance, some weeks before the battle of Inkermann
was fought, he writes :

The allies, however, will have no choice but to set all
these rules at defiance ; for, outflanked on the right, en
potence in the centre, and menaced on the left by the
Sebastopol garrison, they must at all points defend them-
selves by sheer gallantry, or choose between a bloody
defeat, with the sea to retire upon, or an unconditional
surrender.

The fact that we were not driven into the sea, nor
forced to surrender, does not, in any way invalidate
this prediction, because it is now well known that
immediately after Inkermann the question of re•em-
barkation was eeriously mooted at head quarters,
and had Menscbikoff not been ill and wounded, the
probability is that Inkermann would have been re
peated more than once, and that though victorious
we should at last, from sheer weakness and suf
fering, have been compelled to terminate our
mean campaign by a second Corunna. The
letters are ten in number, extending over a period
from October, '54, to June, '55, and embrace every
leading event in the campaign. Several plans are
also given, and the book, on the whole, though written
in rather a dogmatic tone, will amuse tactical
amateurs. War, studied in a comfortable barrack-
room by a subaltern without responsibility, may ap-
pear like all other subjects on paper—one to be
made pleasant without difficulty. The old story of
Theory versus Practice is revived in this volume of
Captain Gleig's ; and we have little doubt that if ever
the private despatches of the allied commanders of
that date see the light, we shall discover that circum-
stances compelled them to act in a manner contrary,
perhaps, to the first principles of strategy, and leaving
them no choice but the errors of their enemy to de-
pend upon for preservation or success.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

A Caution against. Images, Pictures, and Superstitious
Decorations. W. Peace, a Layman. W. E. Painter.
The English Bible and its History. Rev. C. E. Oakley, B.A.
Hatchards.
Passages selected from the Writings of Thomas Carlyle.
Thomas liallantyne: Chapman and Hall.
The Mystic, and other Poems. Do.
Infidelity Inescusedits. W. Skeffington.
Eight Years' Wandiffnris in Ceylon. S. W. Baker, Esq.
Longmans.
Do.

Reading Lessons. Edward Hughes.
The Fur Hunters of the Far West.

Alexander Rom
Smith and Elder,