SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2032, 16 July 1885, Page 3

SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE.

The key note to the constitution of that Rioup of devoted adherents who have to be designated as the " Wolseley (4niig," I take to he its completeness foi the functions which it lias to peifoim as a composite whole. In each of its constituent elements, its eoinnounder, if I may use the expiession, lias dieeined aome specific attnbute, of which, when tin- occasion tails it into ie<(uisition, lie shall tike astute and purposeful avail. Asa whole, then, it is " totus, teies, at(|iie, lotundus," an engine effectively adapted to a wide lange of potential uses. The individual units of that whole do not shrike one as by any means, one and all, men of exceptional general military ability Some of them, indeed, may be called dull men. lint never a one of them but has his speciality One has a genius for prompt 01 L'ftiiwition ; another a laic faculty for adininisti.ition A third has a winning manner and a good addiess, a fouith is the scout of scouts. You may wonder what W oNoly can see in so and so, that he has them always with him. Watch events long enou<>h, and time will furnish you with the answer. Tins man pet haps of no gi eat account foi otdinaty put poses, has a stiange gift, w hen thereis doubt in legal d to some line of action, of defining the right couise in a single lugijcd, trenchant, pithy sentence tint carnc-i conviction ; him one may ate, Wolhcley keeps just to help him to m.ike up his iniiKl. This other man has seemingly no attribute at all. sa\e incitness, a love for gn/ing on tho »une when it is red, and the cultivation of stiong language, lint lie, too, has his gift. At range for him a plan of attack, set everything in oidd, tell him that all is ready, and th.it he may go to work. Then you can discern for what Wolseley has eniollcl him in the gang. Ho draws his swoid, he letp a roar out of him fit to wake the dead ; he becomes a veritablo god of battle— a lambent thundetbolt of war :he ladiates from him the niVHteiiously irrcsistablp magnetism thntinsphes men to follow him ; aye, to use the rough soldier-phi ase, " through hell nnd out at thefaither side"' The deed done, the conqueror wipes and sheathes his swoid, mop* his forehead, nighs for a big drink, and is conspicuous no more till he shall lie wanted again. — " Wolseley :a Character Sketch," by Aschibald Forbes English Illustiatnd Magazine for May.

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