THE DIARY OF SIR JOHN MOORE 



Edited by Major-General Sir J. F. MAURICE, K.C.B. 

 Two vols. Demy 8vo. With Portrait and Maps. 30^. nett. 



This Diary covers the whole of Sir John Moore's military career from 

 the time when he first saw service in Corsica in 1793 to within a fort- 

 night of his death at Corunna in 1809. It seems to have been written 

 with the minute care and perspicacity that characterized all Moore's 

 work, and has been printed with scarcely the change of a word from 

 the original. It not only contains a vivid record of military events 

 during a momentous period, but gives free expression to the writer's 

 views on his contemporaries, civil and military, on the policy pursued 

 by Ministers, and the means adopted to face the gravest danger that has 

 ever threatened the existence of Great Britain as an independent Power. 



But the Diary is, above all, interesting from the light it throws upon 

 the character of Sir John Moore himself; no one can read unmoved the 

 unconscious testimony to his own virtues of this great man's private 

 reflections, intended for no eye but his own. In modesty, in devotion 

 to duty, in integrity, in military skill, he stands out in striking contrast 

 to most of his contemporaries. As we read we become fast friends of 

 the writer, sympathizing with his difficulties and rejoicing in his successes 

 as if they were our own ; we feel, in fact, some of the magnetism that 

 made Moore's troops ready to follow him to the death. 



The Diary has been edited by General Sir Frederick Maurice, K.C.B., 

 with appropriate introductions to Moore's various campaigns in Corsica, 

 the West Indies, Flanders, Egypt, Sweden, Sicily, and the Peninsula ; 

 while the abortive French invasion of Ireland provides not the least 

 interesting chapter in a valuable book. 



The portrait of Sir John Moore is reproduced from the picture by Sir 

 Thomas Lawrence in the National Portrait Gallery. 



THE PROBLEM OF THE ARMY. 



By L. S. AMERY, 



Author of '"The Times" History of the Wak in South Africa.' 



Crown Zvo. 5J. 



This is a reprint of the striking articles originally published in The 

 Times. It is believed that many will be glad to possess in a permanent 

 form this important contribution to the literature of the subject, con- 

 sisting as it does of a serious inquiry by one of the leading writers 

 of the day into the military needs of the Empire and the means of 

 satisfying them. 



