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Show COUNT VON MOLKTE'S BOOK. HI. Hl.torr of th. War of 1 870 a Mil-terlr Mil-terlr PLc. of Campaign Lltaratiira. Lospox, Aug. 21 Tho Time publishes pub-lishes a long extract from Count Von Moltke'a history of the war ot 1870. Von Moltke left the manuscript ready for the press, which is therefore published before his other posthumous post-humous works. Although it is numbered num-bered volume three it is signed by Von Moltke's nephnew. It explains the origin of the work as already cabled, adding that his uncle began to write it in the spring of 1877, and worked on it three hours a day at Creisau. The Count returned to Berlin in the autumn cf 1877 and finished the work in Jan-tikf Jan-tikf aftor-which -time be never referred to it. Taken as a whole the work is the most masterly niece' of campaign literature extant. Tha appendix ap-pendix gives a memorandum of the councils of war held during the campaign cam-paign of lSflti and 1170, much of which has been published before. |