. Review of reviews and world's work . speedier end itwould have put to the war and by the lessening ofthe casualties of battle, the truly humane thingbeing, he says, to do thatat all risks which will cer-tainly bring an early endto hostilities. Extraordinary ineptitudewas shown by the Span-ish authorities in theirmanagement of the war,but after reading Ad-miral Chadwicks analy-sis of the treatment by theadministration in Wash-ington of the fifty-million-do 11 a r appropriation fornational defense, one is in-clined to believe that noth-ing done or left undone bythe Spaniards could haveexceeded
. Review of reviews and world's work . speedier end itwould have put to the war and by the lessening ofthe casualties of battle, the truly humane thingbeing, he says, to do thatat all risks which will cer-tainly bring an early endto hostilities. Extraordinary ineptitudewas shown by the Span-ish authorities in theirmanagement of the war,but after reading Ad-miral Chadwicks analy-sis of the treatment by theadministration in Wash-ington of the fifty-million-do 11 a r appropriation fornational defense, one is in-clined to believe that noth-ing done or left undone bythe Spaniards could haveexceeded the blind fatuitythat had prevented thequartermaster, commissary,and medical departmentsup to April 23, 1898, fromgoing outside their ordi-nary routine and from prof-iting, as they should haveprofited, from the liberalityof the American at this remove oftime, Admiral Chadwick isstirred deeply by such alegal construction as thatwhich started that multi-tude of brave Americansoldiers toward the grave,victims of typhoid and. ADMIRAL FRENCH E. CHADWICK (A gallant participant in the Spanish-American Warwho has written the most complete and author-itative account of the struggle) other fevers and of the want of proper medical ish War yet written. attention, and he writes thus strongly of that mis- self for the task by extensive study of the diplo tana, and with nothing which could be calledshelter, must be laid much of the suffering anddeath in the Santiago army. Of the special warappropriation much had been used in preparationby the ordnance and engineer and signal-servicedepartments, and, to the author, provision for thehealthful support of men who might be called intoservice and who were to use the guns, projectiles,and powder which it was ruled could be boughtwould seem as vital an element of defense as theselatter. Admiral Chadwick is singularly well equippedfor writing of the Spanish War. He was captainof the United States ar-mored cruiser New York,the flagship of
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