FOURTH IMPRESSION NOW READY.
SIRDAR AND KHALIFA:
OR THE RECONQUEST OF THE SOUDAN.
BY BENNET BURLEIGH.
Witt Porrratrs, NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, MAps,
AND PLAN OF BATTLE.
DEMY 8vo, 12s.
Tue Daly News says :—** Picturesque, spirited, and trustworthy narrative. . . . The book comprises a summary of the military situation, and a glance at the probable course of the renewed operations which are now on the point of commencing.”
Tue Patt Matt Gazette says :—‘* Nothing could be more timely. It is unnecessary at this time of day to speak of Mr Burleigh’s familar style . . . always to the point, clear, and vigorous ; or of his matter—the matter of an experienced, shrewd, and fearless war correspondent.
e book is just the book for the occasion, and will make the tale that is coming directly more real to many of us. Mr Burleigh gives a few useful introductory chapters dealing with previous events, and a very interesting account of a trip to Kassala, ‘our new possession’; but in the main it is the story of the Atbara Campaign. The book makes good reading, entirely apart from its timely instructiveness.”
THE St pamess GAZETTE says :—“‘ Its real value to the judicious reader lies in the fact that it is a faithful record by a highly skilled observer of the day-by-day life of an Anglo-Egyptian Army engaged in desert warfare. The country itself—river and wilderness—the rival leaders the soldiery, their appearance, arms, and uniform, their eating and drinking, their lying down an their rising up, their marching and the final rush of battle—these are all here before us in a living picture, making the book in reality an invaluable ‘ vade mecum’ for those who wish to realise just what it is that our men are doing to-day between the Atbara and Omdurman.”’
THe WEsTMINSTER GAZETTE says :—‘‘ The book is profoundly interesting. Readers familiar with the author's letters in he Daily Telegraph do not need to be told that he is a master of vivid and picturesque narrative. Mr Burleigh has been an eye-witness during the course of all the campaigns in the Soudan in which British troops have been employed, and therefore writes out of full knowledge and experience.”
THe Morninc Post says :—‘ Many chapters are devoted to the Athara Campaign and the incidents connected with it, the storming of Mahmoud’s entrenched Camp on the 7th of April last and interviews with that Emir after he was taken prisoner. Mr Burleigh’s book, it will Be suffi- cient to say, should prove very useful to all who follow the progress of the Force now advancing on Omdurman. Ina supplementary chapter will be found official despatches, and the work is provided with a map of the Soudan, and plans of the Battle of the Atbara and of the Island of eroe, showing positions before the battle. The illustrations are numerous. Among them is a frontispiece portrait of the Sirdar.”
Tue Daity CHRONICLE says :—‘* We are given a connected and very comprehensible account of all the operations up to the destruction of Mahmoud’s host and the Sirdar’s triumphant return to Berber. . . . The description of the main battle itself is very vivid and complete.” THE SCOTSMAN says :—‘‘ Mr Bennett Burleigh’s new volume, ‘Sirdar and Khalifa,’ comes just in the nick of time. Its object is to recount the story of the reconquest of the Soudan up to the Battle of Atbara. . . . A very readable book. ” THe Dairy TELEGRAPH says:—* Readers of The Daily Telegraph will not be chary of accepting our estimate of the value of this book when we remind them that its author is Mr Bennet Burleigh, who has acted throughout the numerous campaigns which have been waged in the Soudan as the War Corres ndent of this journal, and gained himself a well-merited reputa- tion for his pluck in the face of the enemy, his endurance of hardship and fatigue, his excellence of judgment, and his graphic descriptions of the shock of battle. . . . It only remains to say ¢hat this book is well illustrated, handsomely printed, and is in every way a worthy record of a brief
but memorable campaign.”