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Show "Life of General Sherman." The enterprising Pacific Publishing Co, of Portland and San Francisco, are again to the front. This time it is the "Life of General Sherman.'" written by the deceased general's fellow warrior war-rior and bosom friend, Major General Howard, assisted by that most popular ot';.il bhvrv.e,. V. Fletcher John-(S0I1, John-(S0I1, author of ''The Johnstown tiu.d d..u toe "Life of Silting Bell and the Indian War," also brought out on this Coast by the Pacific Pub lishingCo. A grateful nation is at all times ready to honor the memory of her brave s ms who, during life, have followed the Stars and Stripes 'upon the gory field of battle; and this is par-' I1 I ticularly the case with the last of the I great War Heroes who has jut been j .-u:iinioned by ihr- grim call of death to .j tinow oh ibis mortal coil, foil of years; j full oflioiior: n.il of glory; full of the ; live, aiiVction ami gratitude of his lel-I lel-I low ei;izeiis; full of e er. thing, indeed 'that goes to ensure an envi.itle ini-mortality ini-mortality to the memory of the departed. de-parted. This beautiful, work, just issued by our friends, the Pacific Publishing Co. will be no meun factor iu keeping green for manv years to come the story of the late general's early life, his great war leeoid at Bull Run, at Shiloli, at Memphis, at Yicksburg, at Chattanooga, Chat-tanooga, at Knoxville, at Missionary Ridge, at Atlanta, and last but yery far from the last, that glorious and immortal -'March to the Sea," the generalship and military grandeur of which has probably never been surpassed sur-passed in the annals of warfare. All these matters are most graphically and viyidly dealt with by the able authors; au-thors; and when it is remembered that General Howard has, with the consent con-sent of the late general's family, had access to all the private diaries and cor respondence of General Sherman for the purpose of enabling him to do justice to the subject he had taken in hand, there can be no doubt but that the book under notice is an authentic and reliable biography of the deceased soldier. It is illustrated by portraits, battle scenes, etc., from end to end. The steel plate engraving of the late General, from a photograph taken just before his last illness in his general's uniform, is a yery fine likeness, and a master piece of the 'engraver's art. The book should find its Way into ! every patriotic home in the country. j See the publishers1 advertisement in another column. |