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Reviews Of Hew Books,
other to their hearts' content . The outbreak was thus deferred , but only for a short time . It was at this period that the sepoys at Bareflly , a station notmore than thirty miles disto their oiScers as well as the English residents , and released all the prisoners confined in the gaols . A rising at Budaon quickly followed , and Mr . Edwards , accompanied by a trusty Sikh servant and the few English residents , was obliged to leave the town . Itisimpossible , in a short review , to describe
the sufferings which he endured during his flight . If our readerswish to learn how he escaped the treachery of the native chiefs—how he courageously bore up against the pangs of hunger and of thirst which he e ^ his wanderings through the trackless jungles and morasses of Bengal , exposed alike to the scorching sun arid pouring rain— -if ^ in fact , they take any interest in the adventures of a brave Englishman—we would recommend them to read Mr , Edwards ' s own vivid description of them , and we can assure them that they will not be disappointed .
Eight MontM" Campaign against the Bengal Sepoy A ^ iiiy , duringtlie : Mutvmj of 1857 , by ^ Colonel Georoe Bou ^ chiek , c . b . Bengal B ^ London : Smith and Elder . — -The present volume , though a ^ our sympathies than the many stories of personal adventure and suffering with which we have of late become sadly familiar , has a pectdiar dash and flow of language about it which w ^ It is trul y the story of a soldier , and leads us through forced marches and forays , nights in the trenches , and days in the fiem , and though it tires
us by its constant succession of fighting and killing , yet the subject is one of such painful interest that we axe led insensibly forward . Colonel Bourchier was associated in this campaign with a man whose reputation , though gained in a short space of time , will he undying , —we mean General Nicholson—who sacrificed himself to a wrong sense of duty and misplaced bravery . He would insist upon leading the assault upon the Cashmere Gate , and we cannot too highly censure the fatal blindness of those who devoted to certain destruction a man of Nicholson ' s administrative abilities
and powerful energetic mind . Other men , younger and more active- —it would have been impossible to have been more brave—might well have led such an assault , while the preservation of such a mind as that of General Nicholson , would have been an inestimable boon to the Indian army . The narrative , in parts , is extremely exciting , ancl there are incidents of romance and bravery which stir up the blood of passion within us . When we hear that English soldiers marched to battle with their lances and bayonets
decorated with the locks of their murdered countrywomen and the tprn clothes of their children who had fallen in the terrible massacre of Cawnpore—when we hear of men like Lieutenant Renny of the Artillery , who stood without any shelter to cover his person upon the roof of a house , and pelted the enemy with shells which were handed up to him with their fuses alight —we at the same time admire the gallantry and clcvotedness displayed , and
are rendered hopeful as to our future success in India . We heartily recommend Colonel Bourchier ' s volume to the public . (¦ Ivi ^ for September . 800 , Strand , W . C . —This is the third number of this new satirical publication , and fully keeps up the promise of the first two . The autobiography of a farce is admirable , and we commend it to all aspirants for fame in dramatic literature ,
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Reviews Of Hew Books,
other to their hearts' content . The outbreak was thus deferred , but only for a short time . It was at this period that the sepoys at Bareflly , a station notmore than thirty miles disto their oiScers as well as the English residents , and released all the prisoners confined in the gaols . A rising at Budaon quickly followed , and Mr . Edwards , accompanied by a trusty Sikh servant and the few English residents , was obliged to leave the town . Itisimpossible , in a short review , to describe
the sufferings which he endured during his flight . If our readerswish to learn how he escaped the treachery of the native chiefs—how he courageously bore up against the pangs of hunger and of thirst which he e ^ his wanderings through the trackless jungles and morasses of Bengal , exposed alike to the scorching sun arid pouring rain— -if ^ in fact , they take any interest in the adventures of a brave Englishman—we would recommend them to read Mr , Edwards ' s own vivid description of them , and we can assure them that they will not be disappointed .
Eight MontM" Campaign against the Bengal Sepoy A ^ iiiy , duringtlie : Mutvmj of 1857 , by ^ Colonel Georoe Bou ^ chiek , c . b . Bengal B ^ London : Smith and Elder . — -The present volume , though a ^ our sympathies than the many stories of personal adventure and suffering with which we have of late become sadly familiar , has a pectdiar dash and flow of language about it which w ^ It is trul y the story of a soldier , and leads us through forced marches and forays , nights in the trenches , and days in the fiem , and though it tires
us by its constant succession of fighting and killing , yet the subject is one of such painful interest that we axe led insensibly forward . Colonel Bourchier was associated in this campaign with a man whose reputation , though gained in a short space of time , will he undying , —we mean General Nicholson—who sacrificed himself to a wrong sense of duty and misplaced bravery . He would insist upon leading the assault upon the Cashmere Gate , and we cannot too highly censure the fatal blindness of those who devoted to certain destruction a man of Nicholson ' s administrative abilities
and powerful energetic mind . Other men , younger and more active- —it would have been impossible to have been more brave—might well have led such an assault , while the preservation of such a mind as that of General Nicholson , would have been an inestimable boon to the Indian army . The narrative , in parts , is extremely exciting , ancl there are incidents of romance and bravery which stir up the blood of passion within us . When we hear that English soldiers marched to battle with their lances and bayonets
decorated with the locks of their murdered countrywomen and the tprn clothes of their children who had fallen in the terrible massacre of Cawnpore—when we hear of men like Lieutenant Renny of the Artillery , who stood without any shelter to cover his person upon the roof of a house , and pelted the enemy with shells which were handed up to him with their fuses alight —we at the same time admire the gallantry and clcvotedness displayed , and
are rendered hopeful as to our future success in India . We heartily recommend Colonel Bourchier ' s volume to the public . (¦ Ivi ^ for September . 800 , Strand , W . C . —This is the third number of this new satirical publication , and fully keeps up the promise of the first two . The autobiography of a farce is admirable , and we commend it to all aspirants for fame in dramatic literature ,