BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 129 success. He has filled the important posts of Quartermaster-General and Adjutant-General of the army. He has studied the theory of military organi¬ zation, and has not left out of view the practical details of a soldier’s life in peace and war. He has attempted bold strategies, and has succeeded. Has led armies through countries utterly unknown before to British troops, and has led them not only without extraordinary loss and hardship, but with ease and comparative safety. This experience, gained in a thoroughly active mili¬ tary life of many years, he has used to excellent advantage in the Soudan war.

Whatever view we may take of his choice of routes by which to reach Khartoum we must allow that he has undertaken the expedition which travelled along that difficult and circuitous river, the Nile, not only with skill but with a forethought and with an attention to details that are more than admirable.

Lord Wolseley places implicit confidence m the officers and men under his command, and these return the feeling with interest. He possesses in a high degree the quality of evoking obedience linked with the assurance of success, and than such combination perhaps few are more advantageous to a General commanding an army in the field.