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Eeviews Of Hew Books.
few of the enemy were dead within our lines ; along the whole front of the position they lay in the coppice . Every bush hid a dead man , and in some places small groups lay heaped . In a spot which might have been covered by a common hell-tent , I saw lying four Englishmen and seven Russians . All the field was strewn ; but the-space in front of the two-gun battery , where the Guards fought , "bore terrible pre-eminence in slaughter . The sides of the hill , up to and around the battery , were literally heaped with bodies . It was painful to see the noble
Guardsmen , with their large forms and fine faces , lying amidst the dogged ^ lowbrowed Russians . One Guardsman lay in advance of the "battery on his back , with his arms raised in the very act of thrusting with the bayonet ; he had been killed by a bullet entering through the right eye . His coat was open , and I read his name on the Guernsey frock underneath—an odd name— ' Mustow . ' While I was wondering why his arms had not obeyed the laws of gravity , and fallen by his side when he fell dead , a Guardsman came up and told me he had seen Mustow rush out of the battery and charge with the bayonet , with which he was thrusting
at two or three of the enemy when he was shot . In their last charges , the Russians must have trodden at every step on the bodies of their comrades . In the bushes all around wounded men were groaning in such numbers , that some lay two days before their turn came to be carried away . I passed a Russian with a broken leg , whom some scoundrel had stripped to his shirt , and calling a soldier who was passing , desired him to take a coat from a dead man and put it on the unfortunate creature ; at the same time directing the attention of a party of men collecting the wounded to the place where he lay . Passing the same spot
next day , I saw the Russian lying motionless with his eyes closed , and told a French soldier who was near to see if he was dead ; the Frenchman , strolling up with his hands in his pockets , pushed his foot against the Russian ' s head ; the stiffened body moved altogether like a piece of wood , and the soldier with a shrug and one word ' mort , ' passed on . Large trenches were dug on the ground for the dead ; the Russians lay apart ; the French and English were ranged side
by side . Few sights can be imagined more strange and sad in their ghastliness than that of dead men lying in ranks , shoulder to shoulder , with upturned faces , and limbs composed , except where some stiffened arm and hand remain pointing upward . The faces and hands of the slain assume , immediately after death , the appearance of wax or clay : the lips parting show the teeth ; the hair and moustache become frouzy , and the body of him who , half an hour before , was a smart soldier , wears a soiled and faded aspect .
" Down the ravine along which the Woronzoff-road runs to the valley , the dead horses were dragged and lay in rows ; the English artillery alone lost eighty . The ravine , like all those channelling the plains , is wild and barren ; the sides have been cut down steeply for the sake of the limestone , which lies close to the surface , in beds of remarkable thickness . A lime-kiln , about ten feet square , built into the side of the hill , afforded a ready-made sepulchre for the enemy left on this part of the field , and was filled with bodies to the top , on which a layer of earth was tlven thro wn . ''
"PAMPHLETS . "We have received from India the copy of a Sermon preached in Christ Church , Massoorie , before the Officers and Brethren of lodge u I ) all tousle f No . 922 , of Mussoorie and Delira . Hy the Kev . and V . ~ W \ Bro . T . C . Sm ' ytii . Agra .- —One of
the most masterly defences of Masonry against its opponents we have ever read . It places the Craft in its proper position as an aider and abettor of that highest of all principles , Christian love , and the whole sermon is replete with vigorous thought and irrefragable argument . Some very common yet striking questions of conscience , relative to Masonry , receive here , in an appendix , a satisfactory and
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Eeviews Of Hew Books.
few of the enemy were dead within our lines ; along the whole front of the position they lay in the coppice . Every bush hid a dead man , and in some places small groups lay heaped . In a spot which might have been covered by a common hell-tent , I saw lying four Englishmen and seven Russians . All the field was strewn ; but the-space in front of the two-gun battery , where the Guards fought , "bore terrible pre-eminence in slaughter . The sides of the hill , up to and around the battery , were literally heaped with bodies . It was painful to see the noble
Guardsmen , with their large forms and fine faces , lying amidst the dogged ^ lowbrowed Russians . One Guardsman lay in advance of the "battery on his back , with his arms raised in the very act of thrusting with the bayonet ; he had been killed by a bullet entering through the right eye . His coat was open , and I read his name on the Guernsey frock underneath—an odd name— ' Mustow . ' While I was wondering why his arms had not obeyed the laws of gravity , and fallen by his side when he fell dead , a Guardsman came up and told me he had seen Mustow rush out of the battery and charge with the bayonet , with which he was thrusting
at two or three of the enemy when he was shot . In their last charges , the Russians must have trodden at every step on the bodies of their comrades . In the bushes all around wounded men were groaning in such numbers , that some lay two days before their turn came to be carried away . I passed a Russian with a broken leg , whom some scoundrel had stripped to his shirt , and calling a soldier who was passing , desired him to take a coat from a dead man and put it on the unfortunate creature ; at the same time directing the attention of a party of men collecting the wounded to the place where he lay . Passing the same spot
next day , I saw the Russian lying motionless with his eyes closed , and told a French soldier who was near to see if he was dead ; the Frenchman , strolling up with his hands in his pockets , pushed his foot against the Russian ' s head ; the stiffened body moved altogether like a piece of wood , and the soldier with a shrug and one word ' mort , ' passed on . Large trenches were dug on the ground for the dead ; the Russians lay apart ; the French and English were ranged side
by side . Few sights can be imagined more strange and sad in their ghastliness than that of dead men lying in ranks , shoulder to shoulder , with upturned faces , and limbs composed , except where some stiffened arm and hand remain pointing upward . The faces and hands of the slain assume , immediately after death , the appearance of wax or clay : the lips parting show the teeth ; the hair and moustache become frouzy , and the body of him who , half an hour before , was a smart soldier , wears a soiled and faded aspect .
" Down the ravine along which the Woronzoff-road runs to the valley , the dead horses were dragged and lay in rows ; the English artillery alone lost eighty . The ravine , like all those channelling the plains , is wild and barren ; the sides have been cut down steeply for the sake of the limestone , which lies close to the surface , in beds of remarkable thickness . A lime-kiln , about ten feet square , built into the side of the hill , afforded a ready-made sepulchre for the enemy left on this part of the field , and was filled with bodies to the top , on which a layer of earth was tlven thro wn . ''
"PAMPHLETS . "We have received from India the copy of a Sermon preached in Christ Church , Massoorie , before the Officers and Brethren of lodge u I ) all tousle f No . 922 , of Mussoorie and Delira . Hy the Kev . and V . ~ W \ Bro . T . C . Sm ' ytii . Agra .- —One of
the most masterly defences of Masonry against its opponents we have ever read . It places the Craft in its proper position as an aider and abettor of that highest of all principles , Christian love , and the whole sermon is replete with vigorous thought and irrefragable argument . Some very common yet striking questions of conscience , relative to Masonry , receive here , in an appendix , a satisfactory and