&c. Montalembert.

_Journaux des sieges de Flandre.

_Relations des sieges en Europe,_ &c, Musset-Fathay. A very valuable and
interesting work.

_Relation du siege de Metz.

_Relation du siege d'Anvers.

_Les sieges de Jaffa et de St. Jean d'Acre.

_Les sieges de Saragosse et de Tortose._ Rogniat.

_Siege de Dantzick._ Sainte-Susanne.

_Memoire sur la fortification permanente.--_Sea.

_Le siege de Constantine._

_Elemens de fortification._ Trincano.

_Des places fortes._ Valaze.

_Essay on Military Bridges._Douglas. A valuable work.

_Guide du pontonier._ Drieu.

_Memoire sur la guerre souterraine._ Contele.

_Traite des mines._ Etienne.

_Traite de l'art du mineur._ Geuss.

_Traite de fortification souterraine._ Gillot.

_Traite pratique et theorique des mines._ Lebrun.

_Nouveau traite des mines,_ &c. Prudhomme.

_Manuel du sapeur._ Used in the French service.

_Manuel du mineur._ " ""

_Manuel du pontonier. " ""

_Essay on Field Fortifications._ Pleydell.

_Elements of Field Fortifications._ Lochee.

_Relation du siege de Grave et Mayence._

_Sieges de Genes._ Thiebault.

_Traite de fortification souterraine._ Mouze.

_Militairische Mittheilungen._ Xilander.

_Die Befestigung der Statten._ Hauser.

_Abhandlung ueber die Befestigungskunst,_&c. Hauser

_Versuch ueber die Verschanzungskunst._ Muller.

_Course of Elementary Fortification. _Pasley. This is a work of much
detail--useful, no doubt, to an uneducated engineer soldier, but to an
officer at all acquainted with his profession, it must seem ridiculously
minute.

To the above list might be added a long list of books on that branch of
the engineer's art called _constructions_; but as this part of the
profession is, in some degree, common both to the civil and military
engineer, it is not deemed necessary to include works of this character
in a list of books strictly military.]

CHAPTER XV.

MILITARY EDUCATION APPOINTMENT AND PROMOTION.

With the Romans, six years' instruction was required to make a soldier;
and so great importance did these ancient conquerors of the world attach
to military education and discipline, that the very name of their army
was derived from the verb _to practise._

Modern nations, learning from experience that military success depends
more upon skill and discipline than upon numbers, have generally adopted
the same rule as the Romans; and nearly all of the European powers have
establ