ently on
finding the complete work thoroughly satisfactory."--_Evening
Bulletin, Philadelphia._

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"The work expresses the calm, deliberate judgment of an experienced
military observer and a highly intelligent man. Many of its
statements will excite discussion, but we much mistake if it does
not take high and permanent rank among the standard histories of
the civil war. Indeed that place has been assigned it by the most
competent critics both of this country and abroad."--_Times,
Cincinnati._

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"Messrs. Porter & Coates, of Philadelphia, will publish in a few
days the authorized translation of the new volume of the Comte de
Paris' History of Our Civil War. The two volumes in French--the
fifth and sixth--are bound together in the translation in one
volume. Our readers already know, through a table of contents of
these volumes, published in the cable columns of the _Herald_,
the period covered by this new installment of a work remarkable in
several ways. It includes the most important and decisive period of
the war, and the two great campaigns of Gettysburg and Vicksburg.

"The great civil war has had no better, no abler historian than the
French Prince who, emulating the example of Lafayette, took part in
this new struggle for freedom, and who now writes of events, in
many of which he participated, as an accomplished officer, and one
who, by his independent position, his high character and eminent
talents, was placed in circumstances and relations which gave him
almost unequalled opportunities to gain correct information and
form impartial judgments.

"The new installment of a work which has already become a classic
will be read with increased interest by Americans because of the
importance of the period it covers and the stirring events it
describes. In advance of a careful review we present to-day some
extracts from the advance sheets sent us by Messrs. Porter &
Coates, which will give our readers a foretaste of chapters which
bring back to memory so many half-forgotten and not a few hitherto
unvalued details of a time which Americans of this generation at
least cannot read of without a fresh thrill of excitement."

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