. Review of reviews and world's work. ns. CANISTER. For defensive purposes every battery has alimited quantity of case, formerly known as can-ister. (3f case General Maurice says : Tliis was and is a great defensive weapon ofartillery. The case or canister very soon breaksto pieces after leaving the muzzle of the gun,scattering the bullets it contains in a great coneof dispersion. It is tlius only effective for shortranges against bodies of either cavalry or infan-try actually closing on to the guns to attack them ; but at tliese close ranges it literallysweeps over all the ground in front of
. Review of reviews and world's work. ns. CANISTER. For defensive purposes every battery has alimited quantity of case, formerly known as can-ister. (3f case General Maurice says : Tliis was and is a great defensive weapon ofartillery. The case or canister very soon breaksto pieces after leaving the muzzle of the gun,scattering the bullets it contains in a great coneof dispersion. It is tlius only effective for shortranges against bodies of either cavalry or infan-try actually closing on to the guns to attack them ; but at tliese close ranges it literallysweeps over all the ground in front of the guns,and is appalling in its destructive power. CREUSOT AND KRUPP. A Creusot gun is a gun constructed by thegreat French firm of Schneider & Co. and madeat their works eitlier at Creusot or guns are all made at Essen. The Maxim-Nordenfelt is an AnglOSwedish invention whichessentially consists in its simplest form in firingmechanically the ordinary infantry bullet at avery rapid rate. Tlie howitzer at the beginning. A CREUSOT GUN USED BY THE BOERS. of the century was used to fire shells of largediameter, for at that time guns were chiefly usedfor firing solid shot. In order to reduce theweight of the howitzer it was made very sliort,and as this would have caused a great recoil, itwas only fired at high angles, and the shellsdropped on the enemy from above. Whenshells were adopted for ordinary field gunshowitzers gradually dropped out of use. Buttheir use revived with the invention of liigh ex-plosives, such as lyddite and melenite, the mainconstituent of which is picric acid. THE BOER AND THE BRITISH RIFLE. General Maurice, concludes his article with adescription of the Lee-Enfield rifle used by theBritish troops. The Lee-Enfield differs fromthe Boer Mauser in the following respect : While the Lee-Enfield has a magazine whichis inserted underneath the body through thetrigger-guard and secured by a catch, and is pro- LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 81 vided with wh
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