“ ORGAN DER MILITAR-WISSENTSCHAETLICHEN YEREINE,” 
Parts VI. and VII., Voi. XX.; Parts I., II., and III., Vox.. XXI., 
TBAITS1AIED BY 
Lieut. J. M. GRIERSON, R.A. 
The first paper of interest is one by Colonel von Salis-Samaden, on 
tire teacliing of scouting and outpost work to infantry N.-C. officers. 
In the first place he lays down the principle that selected N.-C. officers 
should not be always used for those services, as their strength would 
soon be exhausted, but that, by careful teaching, all N.-C. officers should 
be able to undertake the leading of a patrol, &c., and should have an 
elementary knowledge of map-reading. A man must first be taught 
to report well, and for written reports, he must write as he would speaJc, 
Before proceeding on a patrol the leader must be clearly told what 
and how to report, and his report must contain the place from which 
he observed the enemy, what he saw or heard of him, giving the source 
in the latter case, the arm of the service, and uniform of the enemy, 
the place from which the report was sent, and his name and regiment, 
which ought to be placed at the top of the report. The author then 
proceeds to give hints as to the orders a man should receive from his 
superiors before proceeding on patrol duty, and recommends that 
distances should always be given in hours, not miles, &c., as a man 
knows when he has been marching an hour, but cannot always tell 
when he has covered a mile of ground. Examples of patrols are then 
given, and N.-C. officers 5 patrols are recommended to stick to the roads, 
as in an unknown country they may easily lose their way across 
country. These recommendations for the conduct of patrols are much 
the same as those contained in other works on minor tactics. Passing 
on to the subject of patrols on the march, and of outposts. Colonel 
von Salis-Samaden introduces some very good general rules, and his, 
system of teaching is based on the German, and true, system of careful 
individual instruction by the regimental officers. 
A long paper is devoted to an examination of the institution of one- 
year volunteers in Austria, Germany, France, Italy, and Russia. The 
general principles of their service, viz., to give some advantages to 
