Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8.
Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.

“The United States Life Saving Service,” “Success with Small Fruits.” “Young Artists' Life in New York,” “The Acadians in Louisiana,” “A Revolutionary Congressman on Horseback,” “American Arms and Ammunition,” [95] “A Personal and what came of it,” “Topics of the Time,” “Home and Society,” and other articles are very cleverly done and beautifully illustrated.

But we were especially interested in Extracts from the journal of Henry J. Raymond, the famous Editor of the New York Times. This number gives a vivid descriprion of his visit to Army of the Potomac in January, 1863, his private intercouse with Generals Burnside, Sumner, Wadsworth, and other officers, and a good deal of the inside history of the battle of Fredericksburg, the plan of Burnside to cross the river again below Fredericksburg, which was prevented by a telegram from Mr. Lincoln, and the celebrated “stick in the mud expedition,” which was defeated before the column reached the place of crossing.

Mr. Raymond tells a good deal of the dissensions among the generals of the Army of the Potomac at this time, and narrates a good many things which form pleasant reading for an old Confederate, and some of which we may hereafter have occasion to quote.

Scribner is certainly among the very best of our monthlies, and it is just to say that is not often marred by such unfair and unjust attacks on our section as Dr. Holland had last year, and for which our Southern papers generally took him so severely to task.