“The family history of Badshah Khan shows the extraordinary conditions which obtain across the frontier, and how seldom men of any note die in their beds. His grandfather, Jangi Khan, was a well-known raider, and he met his death in 1860 at the hands of the 5th Punjab Cavalry when leading a force of Mahsuds to attack Tank. His father, Umar Khan, sacked Tank in 1879, but was killed in a blood-feud in the following year. Badshah Khan was always a prominent figure in the Mahsud jirgahs which came in to discuss matters with our political officers, and he occasionally exerted his authority to keep the more lawless spirits of the tribe in check, but he had to join in the general resistance when punitive expeditions entered the country. His eldest son, Jehan Khan, was killed during the blockade of 1901. He has left two other sons, and these will doubtless maintain the reputation of the family.”—_Pioneer Mail_, August 11th, 1911. Footnote 138: Now the 21st Kohat Mountain Battery. Footnote 139: Now the 22nd Derajat Mountain Battery. Footnote 140: Now the 15th Cavalry, at that time attached to the Punjab Frontier Force. Footnote 141: Afterwards disbanded. Footnote 142: Now the 32nd Pioneers. Footnote 143: Now 5th Gurkhas. Footnote 144: _Kach_, a stretch of alluvial land subject to inundation, in a valley or in the broad bed of a nullah. Footnote 145: Now the 33rd Punjabis. Footnote 146: Now the 23rd Cavalry. Footnote 147: Vol. III., pp. 86 and 89, 1851 edition. Footnote 148: _Proceedings of the Central Asian Society_, May 1911. Footnote 149: These figures are in many cases only approximate. Footnote 150: Includes garrisons of Chitral Fort and Mastuj, and parties under Capt. Ross and Lieut. Edwardes. Footnote 151: Four to six small columns employed, strength averaging 1000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MILITARY TEXT-BOOKS. _8 vo._ AN OUTLINE OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR, 1904, 1905. By Colonel Charles Ross, D.S.O. Volume I. Up to, and including, the Battle of Liao-Yang. With 14 Maps. 10_s._ 6_d._ net. _UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE._—“Although the narrative itself is excellent, the value of this work consists more especially in the comments made by the author, not only in respect to the operations actually under review, but to the whole art of war, as affected in its application by the _man_ and the _means_, in preparation and in action.... Colonel Ross’s work is an education in itself.” _DAILY NEWS._—“A book which might in many respects almost be taken as a model for publications of this particular kind.... It constitutes a study of the art of war which cannot fail to prove most informing to any soldier who reads it through.”