in which of the Jewish tribes were situated
Engedi, Shiloh, Jericho, Hebron, Bethel, Gilgal,
Mount Ebal, Mount Gerizim, Golan, Ramoth-
gilead, and Mount Carmel; he is to be well
up in field fortification and permanent fortification;
he is to give a fair synopsis of chemistry;
he is to be able to transpose music, and to give
the difference between a diatonic and chromatic
interval; and when he has done all this, he is
to be an army schoolmaster at three shillings a
day, teaching raw recruits their letters!

But putting aside pedantries and exaggerations,
such as would seem to be inevitable in
all new schemes and uncertain workings, this
recognition that the soldier has a soul to be
saved and a mind to be trained in other ways
beside accurate firing at a mark, and marching
in time to music, is a concession to the general
spirit of progress, and the more enlightened
views of humanity current in our day, for which
we cannot be sufficiently grateful. It is always
easy to find plenty to laugh at, in the best-
planned schemes; it may not be of vital
consequence to know all about the battle of the Siris,
but it is of vital consequence to get a higher caste
among the privates than hitherto, and to elevate
our Food for Powder into thoughtful, and, in a
way, intellectual men. It used to be thought
that the greater the ruffian, the better the
soldier; the more nearly he was like to a pirate
or a gorilla, the more thoroughly he did his work.
So he might, perhaps, if his work consisted only
in sacking cities. But for efficiency of discipline,
for steadiness on the field, for that certain
high-toned morale which is the best guarantee of
military success, we want a higher stamp of man;
and one as far removed from the pirate and the
gorilla as is possible. And though we do not
think that the army is to be regenerated by
magic lanterns and the Grecian history, yet all
which tends to make the barrack square a home
to the men, and all which keeps them amused
when in barracks, and therefore less eager to fling
themselves into low debauchery when they are
let out, is a gain not only to themselves, but to
the community at large, to whom they are a
burden or a protection, a scourge or a defence,
according to their handling. An army of high-
spirited gentlemen would be almost invincible;
next to them comes an army composed of men
of worth actuated by principle, and disciplined,
not merely drilled.

CRICKET ON THE CONTINENT LAST
                        YEAR.

IN Paris, Lyons, Dieppe, Boulogne, Frankfort,
Homburg, Geneva, and Florence, the game
was last spring set upon its legs, and started off
amid a hearty flourish of advertisements and
international aspirations of a highly sanguine and
prophetic nature. But in most cases, although
this impetus appears to have kept up its career
for a time, it too soon proved to be a deceitful
one; degenerating surely and not slowly into a
suspicious roll, finally making its way in little
other than a disreputable stagger. However,
the cry for Continental Cricket was
perseveringly kept up, and foreigners were assured
that the game was destined to obtain a firm
hold upon their affections, while England was
given to understand that the time was at hand
when crack clubs might leave her shores, and
find fit opponents to encounter, without its
being necessary to take a three months' voyage
to meet them. It was confidently prophesied
that French and German elevens would soon
struggle at Lord's, or a team of regenerated
Italy contest gallantly with the Trojans of
Kennington Oval.

Nowhere were more vigorous and sustained
efforts made to give the game a self-supporting
and progressive existence, than in Paris, and
nowhere was the failure to obtain any
corresponding result more thoroughly complete.
There was a noisy self-assertion in the public
proceedings of the Parisian Club, which,
however warrantable had success smiled upon its
efforts, served, as events transpired, but to
render its issue the more effectually disastrous.
Its circulars and placards met the English
public at every turn. Galignani patriotically
lent itself to the cause with all the ardour of a
convert, and every one was prepared to see the
French rise en masse, and take the field,
flannelled and padded to the throat. Le Sport
and La France even caught the momentary
enthusiasm, and with a confidence which
sufficiently proved how very little they knew what
they were talking about, announced that the
Parisians, not content with their other peaceful
victories over their English neighbours,
both in arts and commerce, and with making
every preparation to wrest from them their
supremacy on the turf, were likewise forming
a society to compete with them in the well-
known English national game of "Kricket-
Match." By a brilliant stroke of policy, the
illustrated journals were enlisted, and in due
time pictorial representations of Le Jeu de
Kricket-Match appeared before the wondering
public.

But somehow, spite of all these promising
appearances, adequate results failed to ensue.
To the more muscular of the resident English,
the young English employes in French houses,
and the students, usually a numerous tribe,
the opportunity of enjoying so thoroughly
English a pastime was fine fun; while, ever and
anon, a roving Oxonian, or travelling barrister,
thought it no small "lark" to play his favourite
game on a foreign soil; and by such its existence
was, as it were, gone bail for while the novelty
lasted, or the occasion remained. But by the
French themselves, the encouragement afforded
must have dashed the hopes of any but the
most determinedly sanguine temperament. Nor
could that met with in Germany merit any
higher praise. It was found to be a matter of
considerable difficulty to induce the natives to
look on; while in no single instance has anything
approaching to emulation been excited. It would
seem that the natural depression produced by