Reeves. Not identified. The contributor explains the French military system, in which a recruit advances in the ranks on the basis of merit and length of time in service, and is eligible for further promotion on the same basis. With the French system, the contributor contrasts the English system, in which promotion from the ranks is the exception and in which commissions are obtained by purchase. The evils of "our military system," he writes, are "of so crying a nature" that common sense prompts the adoption, perhaps in modified form, of the French system. 

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971