A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...

complete ignorance of the first elements of attack and defence;
another professes to publish * very curious ' bits of information, as
he phrases it, which are in reality merely trivial ;
a third adorns his
ill-arranged compilation with the title of ' discoveries,* ' new
methods,' etc.;" such claims having far less justification than
Aconzio's ^ and Zanchi's, when they claim to be the first to write
on fortification. Other titles, again, give not the slightest clue to
the text, a remark which applies with special force to Barnaby
Rich's "Farewell to Militarie Profession",^ a colledlion of short
stories translated from the Italian ;
to the " Specchio di Guerra "^ of
Francesco Panigarola, Bishop of Asti, a religious treatise ; and to
the " Bibliotheca Militum",* a satire against the Puritan army.
However, they are, as a rule, sufficiently accurate to make an
analysis of the contents unnecessary.
fuly^ 1900.
M. J.
D. Cockle.
The compiler wishes to take this opportunity of thanking the
Officers of the British Museum for the facilities accorded him in
compiling this bibliography ; the access granted to the Fourth
Copies was of the greatest service. Both the compiler and the
editor join in acknowledging the unfailing attention and courtesy
received from the attendants.
*
See Promis, p. 91.
* London, 1581 and 1606, 4°*.
'
Bergamo, 1 595, 4°.
*
London. Sixteen-fifty-nine. "Bibliotheca Militum: or the Souldiers Publick
Library. Lately erefted for the Benefit of all that love the Good Old Cause, at
Wallingford House, and already furnished with diverse excellent Treatises." 40. Six
pages. Reprinted in the "Harleian Miscellany," vol. vii., p. 334, from which the
above title is taken. I have seen it described as a catalogue of military books.
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