he recruit to form a mental picture
of military things.]

He must know, too, that if taken prisoner, he must give no correct
answers as to anything concerning his own Army.

It is quite possible to awaken the intellectual faculties of the man
and to develop them even within these narrow limits, for the more
tersely the facts are stated, and the more thorough the instructions,
the more is his thinking power stimulated, whereas a mass of material
to be absorbed merely confuses him. This intellectual pressure of the
instructor must not, of course, be limited solely to the lesson hour,
but he must seize every possible opportunity to assert his influence.
Especial attention is to be directed to habituate the men to carry in
their minds verbal messages for a considerable period, and then to
repeat them clearly and concisely. It is of great assistance to the
intellectual development of the men if they are compelled always to
express themselves in grammatically complete sentences, instead of in
broken phrases; but I should consider it as a serious error to attempt
to teach the recruit the neighbourhood of the garrison, both on the
map and on the ground. For in this way one deprives the man of one of
his few opportunities which occur to him during his whole service of
learning to find his way in unknown country, and thus to develop the
instinct of finding his way, which requires considerable practice.

That this faculty is one of the most important in War-time for every
Cavalry soldier can hardly be open to doubt. From the same point of
view I must enter a protest against the absurd misuse of maps in
Peace-time. Of course, the men, and particularly the patrol leaders,
must understand how to read a map and find their way by it, and all
non-commissioned officers and men out of their first year's service
must be trained in so doing, but it is altogether impractical, and
therefore a bad preparation for war, if in the interests of better
manoeuvre results maps are issued in uncounted numbers even on the
larger scales, so that not only every patrol leader, but every
orderly, can obtain one for a couple of pence. In War, and
particularly in an enemy's country, such extravagance in their issue
is obviously out of the question.

The education of the non-commissioned officers must also be
systematically set in hand. They should be divided, according to their
intelligence and performances, in different groups--two will general