Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Education, Geology, Heat, Physics

People mentioned:

Euclid , Michael Faraday

Institutions mentioned:

Army

    Noting the awesome range of subjects that the Council of Military Education expects army officers to master, the narrator, a spoof applicant to the army, doubts whether leading men of the day have mastered these subjects. For example, he wonders, 'What does Sir Charles Napier [...] know about geology[?]', and whether 'Mr Roebuck has any extensive knowledge of the mysteries of heat, beyond the heat of temper he occasionally displays in debate'.