New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-22
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
o,,,pncvs OF GENERAL GRANT.

svo. DID, H. 13.; ID. Appleton \ Co.
General Hadcau has been fortunate not "n'S III
An. sphi.ct al his elaborate work hui III inc oI'n
nauccs. ,nrtly hut not wholly accidental whl'h
have kept alive keen popular interest III " uu'"I
The LONG pcriod of fourteen years that has sippeu
,vay between the appearance ct ms hTNt No''n,'
and tbe appcarancc of his third and last The mill
airy career of General Grant has even. 1t may oe'
n e,re,ter attraction for the world to-day imam l"
had at the close OF the war. His reputation, -
rpIdier increases with time. The better WI
fine history of the rebellion. tn" ch'I''''r VI ~
various battles aud the mutual RELATIONS VI ~"
,;,,s the cher becomes the general judgment "'
Grants uroprr rank among great com h"""'i''
.ronorr the conviction that his Is career VIII
.r,b the mos, serious study. The last inS'almch'
=, c,,l La lean, work deals with tho IerioI dur
NO which Grants genius in planning and dir'c'mg
4 complicated series OF operations on an 'N''.' -"
,.ale was most signally illustrated; AMI the plST
ness Of the blographcr has been whl' tei"hS '','
Intensely dramatic story of the close "i the NUN
hon aud the personal triumph oi MS ucT" 1T wv
o,tov IN sLo,y also the intimate If not oVeriu.hS
,harc of the gcncran-chici IA the la"N' hluS'''"'
achievements of sherman. Sheridan and Thomas.
IIe has naturally claimed for General "i'h' n'7 III"
allowance of credit for everything acc"mpi Nh'' "S
,;s snhordiuotes but he has dom n IN no unluN'
r,r;t We mean bv this that he has been hhritI J"
mis- eulores of sherman. Sheridan ana some "''''N
Is to whose merit there coull hardly he n''>'"N
hough i'm many cases the SonhiieSN 81 '> W.
eisus will Ice vchemcntlY dI>putcd. N''i"'"' d"
eu,ptinc any learned discuss on al great N''''-'
,perations he displays sufficient power Z" = '''
,;o, IN nrrs.nt a very COOL view of the cots' "i
hc war at its most in crcoting stage WIN GU III
,xplauation OF the meaning Of all important NOV
,ents Ills LATHE pictures are often vivid; ana ID"
Ministry in collecting exact information from h'th
Cl.,aI aud Confederate archives La, been ln"c-
Ltigable.
General Badeau's book has been thought To pos
sss espccial significance ~ a reflection &" tue N'"-
5ments of General Grant himself. HE J. ace 10
he first volume cXpla ned that the auihn' a'"'v
Was responsible for ms opinions and th"' 'h'H "'"
not been submitted To Grant; hut II Sd'" III" ''"'"
,lso about th, confidential relations between ide
iuthor and the General ot the Army thd th' eur
o,n, belief is not unnatural. Nor probably ID ia'
vrong II there is no evidence of direct inspiration
- This history ihrr, i every reason to suppose thl
the writer derived most of his opin"nS nom It's
thief. and in particular that IN the s''"'H- ''''
nIiumS and the S"ce'.nE 'cnNurrs "N "' Id ''',
opon various Generals ho only rcl't' what h'
orard at headquarters. He dr>' il"'' al ''''>l'
Ale length thr growth ot GrUt dl~pr'>li' N'''
Maor.Gcrcr,l Thomas nn account Of that gallant
,irrrs delay in moviH. ont "i Na~IN'i'' 20 "''''"
Hand When Thomas mt last ion'ht ihr tir"
hattie for which hc had been long pr.'a' He a'I
,von III. sirntl victory. au oru,r >a>prud1G A!N
ia ,ctu,iIv hcru ~ili.,i. and G'r,ra .."ln y.
(ngnn was on his wav Ia Na~h''u" q" take come
IN md of the ArInl oi tie CuH'eI.AnL 'I'"'
wrote Thoma, a handsome di-;at. h OF '"'ci ''-
finn and a.>ci,tcd after li,tc dc.1, 10 Sr'i'''7!
Stautnns proposal thar IhoHII> ~."alt '' li''"'''
To- the vacant Maiur-' 'currtl,hP 90 lh' h -N."
Army: but he never q, il" ro."nt'i' % Ni'I o.
rhom,,'s dc,iacritc Way. "Wlrn the war Ms
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