Excerpt from War: Reproduced With Amendments From the Article in the Last Edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica"; To Which Is Added, an Essay on Military Literature and a List of Books, With Brief Comments<br><br>Otherwise, the essay, with a few trifling verbal altera tions, stands as it did. I have to apologise to my Ameri can readers for a ludicrous slip by which, in the original article, I substituted the name of Longstreet for Stuart, in speaking of the American cavalry of the civil war. It escaped my notice till I came to revise my work. Oddly enough, none of my critics noticed it till I had finally printed off the corrected edition as it now stands, with Stuart's name in its proper place.<br><br>I have thought it better to reserve for this preface, and not to incorporate in the text, a notice of certain important questions which have come into prominence within the last few months.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.