MILITARY AND NAVAL PUBLICATIONS, FROM THE PRESS OF D. VAN NOSTRAND, 192 BROADWAY, (UP STAIRS,) NEW YORK. A large Stock of English, French, and American Military Works, constantly on hard. Copies of any of these Books sent free by mail on receipt D. Van Nostrand's Publications. Scott's Military Dictionary. Comprising Technical Definitions; Information on Raising and Keeping Troops; Actual Service, including makeshifts and improved materiel, and Law, Government, Regulation, and Administration relating to Land Forces. By Colonel H. L. SCOTT, Inspector-General U. S. A. 1 vol., large octavo, fully illustrated, half morocco. $5. "It is a complete Encyclopædia of Military Science."-Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. "We cannot speak too much in legitimate praise of this work."—National Intelligencer. "It should be made a Text-book for the study of every Volunteer." -Harper's Magazine. "We cordially commend it to public favor."-Washington Globe. "This comprehensive and skilfully prepared work supplies a want that has long been felt, and will be peculiarly valuable at this time as a book of reference."-Boston Commercial Bulletin. "The Military Dictionary is splendidly got up in every way, and reflects credit on the publisher. The officers of every company in the service should possess it."-N. Y. Tablet. "The work is more properly a Military Encyclopædia, and is profusely illustrated with engravings. It appears to contain every thing that can be wanted in the shape of information by officers of all grades."-Philadelphia North American. "This book is really an Encyclopædia, both elementary and technical, and as such occupies a gap in military literature which has long been most inconveniently vacant. 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An Elementary Treatise on the Theory of Rifle Firing; explaining the causes of Inaccuracy of Fire and the manner of correcting it; with descriptions of the Infantry Rifles of Europe and the United States, their Balls and Cartridges. By Capt. C. M. WILCOX, U. S. A. New edition, with engravings and cuts. Green cloth. $1.75. "Although eminently a scientific work, special care seems to have been taken to avoid the use of technical terms, and to make the whole subject readily comprehensible to the practical enquirer. It was designed chiefly for the use of Volunteers and Militia; but the War Department has evinced its approval of its merits by ordering from the publisher one thousand copies, for the use of the United States Army."-Louisville Journal. "The book will be found intensely interesting to all who are watching the changes in the art of war arising from the introduction of the new rifled arms. 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Hand-Book of Artillery, For the Service of the United States Army and Militia. New and revised edition. By Maj. JOSEPH ROBERTS, U. S. A. 1 vol. 18mo, cloth flexible. 75 cents. "A complete catechism of gun practice, covering the whole ground of this branch of military science, and adapted to militia and volunteer drill, as well as to the regular army. It has the merit of precise detail, even to the technical names of all parts of a gun, and how the smallest operations connected with its use can be best performed. It has evidently been prepared with great care, and with strict scientific accuracy. By the recommendation of a committee appointed by the commanding officer of the Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Va., it has been substituted for Burns' Questions and Answers,' an English work which has heretofore been the text-book of instruction in this country." -New York Century. New Infantry Tactics, For the Instruction, Exercise, and Manoeuvres of the Soldier, a Company, Line of Skirmishers, Battalion, Brigade, or Corps d'Armée. By Brig.-Gen. SILAS CASEY, U. S. A. 3 vols. 24mo. Half roan, lithographed plates. $2.50. VOL. I.-School of the Soldier; School of the Company; Instruction for Skirmishers. VOL. II.-School of the Battalion. VOL. III.—Evolutions of a Brigade; Evolutions of a Corps d'Armée. The manuscript of this new system of Infantry Tactics was carefully examined by General MCCLELLAN, and met with his unqualified approval, which he has since manifested by authorizing General CASEY to adopt it for his entire division. The author has retained much that is valuable contained in the systems of SCOTT and HARDEE, but has made many important changes and additions which experience and the exigencies of the service require. 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"Based on the best precedents, adapted to the novel requirements of the art of war, and very full in its instructions, Casey's Tactics will be received as the most useful and most comprehensive work of its kind in our language. From the drill and discipline of the individual soldier, or through all the various combinations, to the manoeuvres of a brigade and the evolutions of a Corps D'Armée, the student is advanced by a clear method and steady progress. Numerous cuts, plans, and diagrams illustrate positions and movements, and demonstrate to the eye the exact working out of the individual position, brigading, order of battle, &c., &c. The work is a model of publishing success, being in three neat pocket volumes."-New Yorker. 8 D. Van Nostrand's Publications. School of the Guides. Designed for the use of the Militia of the United States. Flexible cloth. 50 cents. 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