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The late Mr. T. B. Harbottle was a good classical scholar, and well versed in the literature of the Latin countries, as evidenced by several excellently compiled dictionaries of quotations. His Dictionary of Battles may be regarded as a companion volume to Dictionary of Historical Allusions, which was favourably reviewed by the Westminster Review some time ago. As its author died whilst the work was going to press, the duty of correcting the proofs and preparing the index was entrusted to Colonel P. H. Dalbiac, and most conscientiously has he performed it. We have fairly tested the Dictionary of Battles and have not found it wanting. There are five entries under the heading Russo-Japanese War; much space -- speaking, of course, comparatively, for the book only consists of 273 pages of highly condensed matter -- is devoted to Port Arthur; and the battle of Te-li-ss , which took place on June 14, 1904, is the latest therein recorded. --The Westminster Review, Vol. 143

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