Youghal.
_Description of Battles._--Judging from my own experience, historical
details of battles are comparatively unintelligible to non-military
readers. Now that, unhappily, we shall probably be compelled to "hear of
battles," would not some of our enterprising publishers do well to furnish
to the readers of history and of the bulletins, a popular "Guide to the
Battle Field," drawn up some talented military officer? It must contain
demonstratively clear diagrams, and such explanations of all that needs to
be known, as an officer would give, on the spot, to his nonprofessional
friend. The effects of eminences, rivers, roads, woods, marshes, &c.,
should be made plain; in short, nothing should be omitted which is
necessary to render an account of a battle intelligible to ordinary
readers, instead of being, as is too often the case, a mere chaotic
assemblage of words.