The Armies of the First French Republic and the Rise of the Marshals of Napoleon I. By the Late Colonel Ramsay Weston Phipps, Formerly of the Royal Artillery. Volume V, The Armies on the Rhine, in Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Egypt, and the Coup d'etat of Brumaire: 1797 to 1799. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1939. Pp. x, 479. $7.00.)