GENERAL MACIVOR'S CAREER.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4862, 9 August 1884, Page 1

GENERAL MACIVOR'S CAREER.

" Under Fourteen Flags"—the* book in,;■■ which Captain ■""'WT D. L'EstrangeS desv cribeß the life and adventures of Brigadier General Macltor, who is now in Australia endeavoring to organise: ap exploration party to New GuineaVbys received several - very favorable" notices in the London Press. The Globe, while it cannot congratulate the author oh his literary workmanship, admits that he has chosen a good BubjecV "General Maelvor," it observes, "is a typical soldier of fprtune^Brave to the point where courage degenerates into recklessness, he chose thej profession bf arms-- almost;: from} his childhood, and seems to hare Been service in almost every quarter; of the globe. It mattered not why or butv duritfg the last 30 years, wherever, fighting was going on, there Maclvor was to be:; found"/. la.the Indian mutiny, under Garibaldi^with the Confederate Army, in Mexico, Brazil, the i Argentine Republic, Crete, Greece, Cuba, Egypt, in the Franco■>German war, with ; Don Carlos, and- in • Scrvia he lhas u^ sheathed bisi sword,w_ith:equal flif> deed, it ,'wpuld, be difficul t, ifjqot impos*• sible, to find one who is more in love with. fightiDg for fighting's sake ; and when not otherwise occupied, he seems to have had a trick of pickibg quarrels with his own companions,; very muchi to the disadvantage of the latter.w We should beisbrry to say how'inany duels in which he killed : aß ? coolly^^as^rmbßtv^:men-w•ould^a^''.''' rabbit are recorded mi , tht se volumee. But most readers willtfturn with keener | appreciation to the account of the multi-. tode of hair-breadth escapes which the heroic Scotchman has passed! through.••..•■' He has certainly had a charmed life; and must possess an iron^^ cbhsjilution to.hiive . survived such a catalogue of wounds^ .