io Mr, Edward Arnold's Autumn Announcements. 



DISCIPLINE AND NATIONAL 

 EFFICIENCY. 



By the Late Major-General Sir F. MAURICE, K.C.B. 

 With a Memoir by his Son, Major F. MAURICE. 



One Volume. Demy 8vo. About los. 6d. net. 



Shortly before he was seized by the illness which eventually 

 proved fatal, Sir Frederick Maurice had begun to prepare for 

 publication a number of papers dealing with the principal problems 

 which had occupied his life. He had intended a part of these papers 

 to form a volume treating of the broad aspects of discipline in 

 relation to national efficiency. These have been selected for 

 publication with a short account of his life and work, because, 

 though they may not possess the same intrinsic interest as some of 

 the historical studies he has left, they display more clearly than it is 

 possible for the latter to do the principles and ideals by which he 

 was guided, In this volume he discusses the general effect of 

 national service in its Continental form on national well-being and 

 efficiency, explains the true nature of military discipline, the part 

 played in military education by the correct performance of routine 

 duties, and why the proper polishing of a button has its military 

 value. In other papers he considers the loss of power and efficiency 

 caused by neglect to see that the young are brought up in conditions 

 such as would give them a reasonable chance of becoming physically 

 capable of performing the duties of citizenship, and shows that the 

 number of men willing to serve in the army and navy would be 

 more than sufficient for our needs if they were all physically effective. 

 Lastly, he selects as an example of the results of discipline the story 

 of the Birkenhead, and shows that the popular and melodramatic 

 version of the wreck has little relation to the true tale of duty quietly 

 performed in the face of death. 



The memoir describes Sir Frederick Maurice's early life, the 

 influence upon him of his father, Frederick Denison Maurice, his 

 part in the small wars of the Victorian era, his efforts to assist his 

 friend Lord Wolseley with pen and voice in the reform of our 

 national defences, his work as a military historian and educationalist, 

 and his efforts in the cause of national physical improvement. 



