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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Book notices. (search)
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Cooke's Life of General R. E. Lee. D. Appleton & Co., New York.
This book was published in 1871, and has been so long before the public that it need now receive no extended review at our hands.
Colonel Cooke wields a facile pen, and his books are always entertaining. There are errors in the strictly Military part of this biography which a more rigid study of the officia corrected in the edition before us.
A military biography of Stonewall Jackson. By Colonel John Esten Cooke. With an appendix (containing an account of the Inauguration of Foley's statue), by Rev. J. Wm. Jones. D. Appleton & Co., New York.
Cooke's Life of Jackson was originally published during the war, and was rewritten, and republished in 1866.
The enterprising publishers have brought r it is meeting with a large sale.
It is to be regretted that the publishers did not give Colonel Cooke the opportunity of revising and correcting his work, for while the book is very readable, an