Show Gravo lotte to beam new lork 0 u aside of his in memoirs which will be published in december it was not generally known that gen cral sheridan bad anything fbi publication yeater day reported that charles scribners sons bad procured from him an arciclo arti clo for publication in their magazine and upon inquiry at cheit office the report was veri fled the article arill be entitled F bom gravelotte Gra to sedan and will ap ear in the november number of magazine it is the only contribution ever made b general sheridan to a periodical period icaT I 1 and covers a part of his career which it was impossible for any other pen than his own to record general Sheri dans posidio 11 ila a uon combatant comba taut observer of be franco prussian war attached to the personal of the german emperor as the invited cepres tentative enta tive of the united state army was a fact without precedent in american history the general kept careful notes during the whole of the campaign an d his other eg per conces in europe and the article promises to be of great interest the pictures he gives is as vivid as the situation was u ausua T h e article is written with the greatest spirit and force in a concise and tent ious but peculiarly peculia clear undre ty aher i dan had in com mon with grant no one will wonder after read irm his accounts odthe operations with its shrewd and in dependant judgements judge ments of forces which he neither un dereath in ate nor omitted to criticism criticise critic ise that abe german officers all ledged him at once as a muter of his profession the pr aronal onal side odthe article his reminiscences of the prussian leaders of bismarck and von is also ordinary iri terest bismarck talked to him with remarkable frauk jim on all subjects and a goo d ll 11 Y fact about th e iron ch acel 0 r will appear for the first time in this article ilia confidence to sheridan that all his early ambi bious had been in the dir of a military life may have been made also to others but probably not big blat he be gan llev with tendencies lall toward rePublic iu iato aiato but that his poli cal life had taught him to believe that was not adv need fr republicanism the narrative abounds with characteristic stories of bold bismarck from a capital description of his jumping from big carriage with a paso an clearing the streets f the village of gorze to the moment whick is described wit 4 wonderful woud erful vividness b when he dismounted abreast of the carriage boated napoleon and saluted the empal in a quick brusque way which I 1 I 1 deemed to startle him the article does not deal with the military battles except for occasional deigns ottery observation but is written upon a scale its though the drama tic force of what be was could not but get the better of the merely professional point ofviey this gave the story perhaps it greatest attraction attract iou and certain pas sages show a remarkable and anex pecked power of word painting |