_Ce sont des lois de la guerre. Il faut estre bien cruel bien souvent pour venir au bout de son ennemi; Dieu doit estre bien miséricordieux en nostre endroict, qui faisons tant de maux._--MARSHAL MONTLUC. The prohibition of explosive bullets in war--The importance of the Declaration of St. Petersburg of 1868--The ultimate triumph of more destructive methods--Illustrated by history of the cross-bow or the musket; or of cannons, torpedoes, red-hot shot, or the bayonet--Numbers slain in modern and earlier warfare--The laws of…
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