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Show The Glube-Democrat says that Gen. Sherman's book is sery interesting, "but it U not history. There is scarcely an impartial page between its covers, and there are whole chap-tors chap-tors that are full of injustice both to the living and the dead." The newspaper news-paper writer admits that it will be a diflkuit work to criticise or to refute Sherman's staU nieuis, as his style is glittering aud fresh throughout, and as ancient and modern history have not produced six men whocould command com-mand ft great army and write a great book. The 0r.-t fault found .villi the book is that its author held to the idea that the late struggle was a politician's war. Though it has been the fashion of the republicans to arrogate ar-rogate to themselves the highest and most sublime motives in that struggle, strug-gle, we have little doubt that history will vindicate Lien. Saennau'a view of its character as a political war, which is not necessarily a disparaging one. It is perhaps true that the great soldier has failed to give dis criminating credit to some of the oQi- i ccrs whom he includes in the class of political general aa distinct from those of the regular service; but it i evident that iu his citicism ot Edwin Af.. Stanton he has hit the republican party and its reconstruction policy the severest possible bimv. liy interfering inter-fering with and overruling tiio terms of Johnston's surrender to Sherman, fcitanton laid the foundation for many of tho now admitted evils winch have followed the legi.-laiion of congress in "N. regard to the southern elates. |