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place in every library. The publishers have done their part well, and the book is gotten up in good style. Prison Echoes of the great Rebellion. By Colonel R. D. Hundley (late of the Confederate States Army). New York: S. W. Green, Printer. The author sent us some time ago a copy of this exceedingly entertaining little volume; but our notice was crowded out at the time, and has since been somehow overlooked. Colonel Hundley wields a facile, graceful pen, and has written an exceedingly interesting narrative of his experience and observation as a prisoner of war — much of the narrative being taken from a diary which he kept at the time. The book very pleasantly combined into a book of decided interest, and of considerable historic value as throwing light on the question of the Treatment of prisoners. Colonel Hundley did not find Northern prisons the palaces which they have been represented to be, and his narrative might have served a good purpose had we had it when prepar