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as to advance, he would undoubtedly have entered
Richmond.
A book, favorably announced, has appeared at
Frankfort, at the end of 1861, going back even to the
opening of the campaign. The author, Mr. Aneke,
analyzes very well all the preliminaries of the strug-
gle. He belongs to the extreme Republican party,
and should take service under the United States as an
artillery officer. If this work is finished, it will not
fail, to judge by what is already known of it, to offer
a genuine interest to the public.
In France there have been published two works,
particularly worthy of mention.
In the first place, Lettres sur VAmérique, by M.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ferri Pisani, aide-de-camp of
Prince Napoleon, who made, in 1861, a visit to the two
belligerent camps. These piquant letters, of an officer
as intelligent as experienced, form on the whole a
very faithful picture, though sometimes a little too
imaginative, of the military movements which the
author has had under his eyes. They give little his-
torical detail, but they have an originality of percep-
tion and of comparison, a delicacy of glance, and a
charm of stylé, which make it to be much regretted
that they were not continued even to the period of the
important events which followed. They have, again,
been the first to furnish to Europe some little informa-
tion, characteristic and precise, upon the transatlantic
troubles. On this occasion, begging you, Mr. Coun-
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