COLONEL J. L. SLEEMAN.

TRIBUTE TO HIS WORE. _

[fkom oue own correspondent.]

LONDON. Sept. 6.

Commenting on the award of a C.B. to Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Sleeman, Imperial General Staff, the Tablet says that at the outbreak of war he nas serving with the famous First Division, " an'! ■was subsequently selected to raise and train the tirst of the new battalions of his regiment. After serving as second-in-command of his regiment in France and Flanders, Colonel Sleeman was specially selected by the Army Council, at ibs request of the Slew Zealand Government, as director of military training to the New Zealand Forces, and has held this appointment ever since. The only grandson of the celebrated General Sir W. H. Sleeman. K.C.8., of 'Thuggee* fame, Colonel Sleeman is the successful author of four military book,-, and of one on Indian big-game shooting. He is also the inventor of the entrenching tool -which has saved many thousands of lives during the war, in addition to being a Master of Arts, G.R.G.S., and F.Z.S." Th Times Literary Supplement, a few weeks ago. in highly ■praising a book by Mr. Edmund Candler, the war correspondent in Mesopotamia, deplored the fact that the Indian Army had not produced another Sleeman.