NAVAL AND MILITARY WORKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15169, 7 December 1912, Page 4 (Supplement)

NAVAL AND MILITARY WORKS.

Having regard to the increasing demand in both services for standard works on naval and military subjects, and to the fact that, in response- to tho growing recognition of their importance and interest on all sides, such subjects have been definitely included in the curriculum of the university, the syndics of the Cambridge University press have decided to publish a naval and military series. The more technical books will be concerned with strategy, tactics, geography, map-reading, armament, administration, combined operation and the economics of' war. Tho volumes of a loss technical, or non-tech-nical character # will comprise records of separate campaigns, biographies of commanders and statesmen distinguished in the conduct of war, the history and antiquities of tho navy and army or of particular branches thereof and tho political aspects of Imperial defence- The series will bo under 'the general editorship of Julian S. Corbett, LL.M., F.S. A-, of Trinity Collego and the Middle Temple, Lecturer in History to the Royal Naval War College, and H. J. Edwards, C.8., M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Peterhouse and Colonel Commanding the Cambridge University Contingent, Officers Training Corps.