850-'60. XVII.
The Nebraska-Kansas Struggle. XVIII. Case of Dred Scott in the Supreme
Court. XIX. Our Foreign Policy--Monroe--Cuba. XX. John Brown and his
Raid. XXI. The Presidential Canvass of 1860. XXII. Secession Inaugurated
in South Carolina. XXIII. The Press and the People of the North
Deprecate Civil War. XXIV. Attempts at Conciliation in Congress. XXV.
Peace Democracy at the North and Peace Conference at Washington. XXVI.
The Union versus the Confederacy. XXVII. The Pause before the Shock.
XXVIII. Siege and Reduction of Fort Sumter. XXIX. The Nation Called to
Arms--and Responds. XXX. Secession Resumes its March. XXXI. The Opposing
Forces in Conflict. XXXII. West Virginia Clings to the Union. XXXIII.
The War in Old Virginia. XXXIV. First Session of the Thirty-Seventh
Congress. XXXV. The Rebellion and War in Missouri. XXXVI. War on the
Seaboard and the Ocean. XXXVII. Kentucky Adheres to the Union. XXXVIII.
The Potomac--Ball's Bluff. Notes and Analytical Index.

This work demands an extended review, and the readers of THE CONTINENTAL
may again hear of it. Meantime the most varied estimates will be formed
of its merits; as various as the political tenets held by its readers.

It is illustrated, containing Heads of President and Cabinet, Eminent
Opponents of the Slave Power, Confederate Chieftains, Union Generals,
Confederate Generals, Union Naval Officers, Plans of Battles, etc., etc.

DOWN IN TENNESSEE, AND BACK BY WAY OF RICHMOND. By EDMUND KIRKE,
Author of 'Among the Pines,' 'My Southern Friends,' etc. New York:
Carleton, publisher, 413 Broadway. 1864.

The author of this work, having been familiar with the South in days
more tranquil, had 'a desire to study the undercurrents of popular
sentiment, and to renew his acquaintance with former friends and Union
prisoners,' and so visited the Southwest in May last: the present volume
thus originated. We cannot very readily discern how much of this work is
fact, how much fiction. We have the Union scout, the poor white, the
negro, and other elements belonging both to the romance and reality of
Southern life in these days of struggle. Are the exquisitely simple and
heart-touching thoughts and expressions which fall from the lips of the
poor white or scout, actually true, or are they the coinage of Mr.
Kirke's own vivid fancy? Notwithstanding the hideous jargon in which
they occur, if real they evince a high soul, even in the midst of
ignorance, and are