| Show echoes 0 battle by washington JAMES aliis volume 19 ono that will interest every american it should find its way into eairy patriotic home in aliis country eliose first steps toward ence and lat blows for union are so graphically referred to in its pages it ia a cloth extra gilt edges price the prose portions ot alie book are valuable as sketches of both the revolution and the invasion part of the rebellion while the beautiful language of the corresponding correspond ine poems depicts with pathetic effectiveness some of the scenes just after the battles of antietam and gettysburg the battle ot the brandy wyna and the pad ions at valley fore are well described missing is a tenderly touching prod aci ion telling of alio unknown lost ones in battle and the description of the hero of johnstown is full of vivid and thrilling pathos antietam and gettysburg will awaken a patriotic chord in every true american the yacht baco is a beautiful and exhilarating effusion displaying the authors sympathies with the sportive element 0 the community it should have been published alone while the summer contests were in pro erbee during the summer of 1895 hie autho rode and walked over many earthworms earthworks earth works and forts traveling over much of alie crould of revolutionary battlefields battle fields ho alro revisited alie fields of antietam and gettysburg these were familiar to him bebau e ot his active volunteer duty abier the terrific as a surgeon immediately battles and from tours he hag blab rated the interesting notes in the latter part of the volume houn dand profusely and suitably illustrated with artistic half tone reproductions of photographs and drawings this book will be an attractive addition to every library as well aara most readable and instructive book for aud old alike young just issue dand for sale by henry T chatea co publishers philadelphia |
