Excerpt from War: Reproduced With Amendments From the Article in the Last Edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", To Which Is Added, an Essay on Military Literature and a List of Books, With Brief Comments

Otherwise, the essay, with a few tri¿ing verbal altera tions, stands as it did. I have to apologise to my Ameri can readers for a ludicrous slip by which, in the original article, I substituted the name of Longstreet for Stuart, in speaking of the American cavalry of the civil war. It escaped my notice till I came to revise my work. Oddly enough, none of my critics noticed it till I had finally printed off the corrected edition as it now stands, with Stuart's name in its proper place.

I have thought it better to reserve for this preface, and not to incorporate in the text, a notice of certain important questions which have come into prominence within the last few months.

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