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Literary notices.
The Mississippi.
By
Francis Vinton Greene, constituting Volume VIII, of the series of ‘Campaigns of the
Civil War,’ issued by
Charles Scribner's Sons, has been sent us by the publishers and will be fully reviewed, by a competent hand, at no distant day. Meantime, we advise our friends to put all of the volumes of this series on their Library shelves as fair representations of the
Federal side.
And we again repeat, that if
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons desire to prove their claim to impartiality in publishing ‘Campaigns of the
Civil War,’ they must now arrange for a similar series from some of our ablest Confederate soldiers.
‘the Shenandoah Valley in 1864.’
By,
George E. Pond,.
Associate Editor of the
Army and Navy Journal, has been received (through
Messrs. West &
Johnston, of
Richmond), and constitutes Volume XI, of the same series.
We have not yet had opportunity of reading the volume, but shall do so at our earliest convenience (in connection with a re-reading of
General Early's account of the same events) and we promise our readers a a full review, which we hope to secure from an abler and more competent pen than ours.
We may say now, however, that from casually dipping into it, the book seems to us to be an able, well written, and interesting presentation of the
Federal side of that important campaign.
history of
Augusta county, Va. By
J. Lewis Peyton,
Staunton, Va.:
Samuel M. Yost & Son.
We are under obligations to the author for a copy of this valuable contribution to history, for it must be remembered that ‘
Augusta county,’ originally extended from the western slope of the
Blue Ridge to the
Mississippi river, and embraced a large part of that empire which
Virginia generously gave to the general government.
With industrious research
Mr. Peyton has gathered the material which his facile pen has woven into an interesting and valuable narrative, which we cordially commend to all lovers of historic truth.
Mrs. Derenne, of
Savannah, Ga., has placed us under highest obligations for sending us beautiful copies of the rare and very valuable ‘
Wormsloe Quartos,’ and some other books.
We had purposed copying from the admirable sketch of
Colonel Charles C. Jones, Jr., his notice of these books, his sketch of the distinguished compiler and publisher,
Dr. DeRenne, and the correspondence concerning the bronze statute of the
Confederate soldier which he presented to the
Ladies Memorial Association of
Savannah; but our printers warn us that they are ‘full,’ and we must defer this matter until our next issue.
General Early has presented to the Society 600 copies of his able, interesting, and very valuable ‘Memoir of the
Last Year of the
War for Independence in the
Confederate States of America,’ and we would be glad to mail a copy to anyone sending us the publisher's price (seventy-five cents) in postage stamps.
