Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
LITERARY NOTES.
BOOKS RECEI WE'D.

BOOKS RECEIVED.
GENERAL BEUREGARDs MILITARY OPERA
TONS. by Judge Alfred Roman. New
York: Harper q Bro.
MAGAZINES.
THE POPULAR So ENCE MONTHLY.
The CENTURY.
ELECTRA.
The NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
TIE MANHATTAN.
THE CURRENT, February 23)
The author of Gin KS Baby" is bri1gin
t,snother novel.
Mr.. Charles Reade's new novel is coming
out, not in one English magazine, but in
number Cf provincial newspapers.
|: is reported that the home sales of tht
teautiful Christmas number of Harper
Magazine amounted to 800 600 copies ant
that 81 90 copies weIe sold in England.
The New Washington" both in Its ma
ttrial and society aspects, is the subject
. richly illustrated paper in the Marcel
Century, written by one who is intimately
s'9usinted with Washington life.
The leading article in The Manhattan 70,
March will be on Dartmouth College,
u alma mater Of Webster and Choate
The article will be profusely ILLUSTRATED
with portraits and from drawings made OK
pressly for it,
The Current of February %. will con-
tain paper OF very great interest from
the pen OF General Jsmes s. Brisbin. en-
titled Garfield at Home" in which many
heretofore unpublished facts regarding
the dead Presidents home life, methods OF
work and public career are given.
Two volumes are now ready of the edi
ton de luxe of Carlisle, the publishers OF
which are Este Lauriat OF Boston. Ths
edition is printed from new type on parch
ment linen paper, and is uniform with the
cha, ming Hawthorne, the University Press
being the printers. Feelings, steel engray-
irgs and photographers are given.
The Egyptian question, which is now eK-
citing so much attention in Europe and
this country, is discussed by General W
". Loring, Pasha, in paper entitled
What Will Become of Egypt? in The
Manhattan for March. General Loring't
service of ten years under the Khedive Is
mail, during which he conducted the cam
pGien sgainst the Abyssinians, makes The
General one Of the greatest living authori
Ties on ell matters relating to Egypt.
The Hon. Wayne MacVeagh contributes
to the March Century paper on "Th'
Next Presidency in which the ideal pres
ident is pictured, and the author venture
the opinion that the political party uomi
mating the man who approaches rearesI
that ideal will be successful in the comiur
election. Another important essay in thi,
number of The Century discusses methods
for The Suppression of Pauperism."
Still another edition de luxe is in pros
pect the author in this case being Poe and
the publishers q. p. Patnam's Sons, by ar
rsngement with the Armstrong;. There
will be eight volumes. The type will be
new, and the paper is to be made expressly
TO- nnlu xril h.
printed, and some of them go to London
Vol. ]. is promised for March. Mr.. Stod
dard's memoir-the best memoir Of POI
ever written, and there are a score-wil
e used along with the Lowell aad Will
essays.
detler in old books in = fashionsbi
neigh borhoOd OF New York city advertise
for first editions of Bryant, Emerson, HaS
tLorne, Foe, Lowell and Longtellox, spec
flying, among other works Nature
''rhe Dial" "Fanshswe," The ScIrle
Letter" 'TamerIane.' and Voices of tn
Night" Five years ego 1t would not hav.
been difficult to obtain any OF these work
without advertising for them save IN,
ture," The Dial" and "Fsnshswe;" bu
If this dealer gets any of them now for an!
modest sum Of money he may count thu
day one OF his luckiest
Judge Alfred Roman, formerly OF Gen
eral Beauregard's staff, is the author o.
two very handsomely printed volumes by
the Harpers, of over 200 pages. We are
informed by General Beauregard that the
work has his full authority, and he gives
his pledge to its truthfulness and accuracy.
While the author Is distinctly a Southern
man, and views his facts from a Southern
standpoint, which is admissible and
to be expected as a rule his
record facts of history, incidents
and give documentary evidence OF thai
part of army life with which Genera
Besuregard was identified. 1t would have
been fortunate for our author and would
have made his books more valuable il he
had stuck closely TO his rule and not al
lowed himself to turn aside and carp and
cavil at historians who have goen upon
the record There was no need at the bat.
tie OF Pittsburgh Landing to prove the
bravery OF the Confederate troops by
dispsrsging General Sherman, or OF
questioning the courage Of Geuer.
al Wallace. There was no necessity OF
pervertiDg history at the sieee OF Corinth
to 81 ow the iucompetency OF General Pope
or to repeat the stale falsehoods long
ago dropped. General Popes army at
Corinth was at no time in any danger from
the garrison at Corinth, and had General
Beauregard ventured out as our historian
boasts that he intended to do, and did not
'';o bag Pope" two chances to one that he
would have been bagged, and the mastery
have been northward. But these are only
incidentsls, and not frequent enough to
seriously impair the value of the
history. No one who reads history
can doubt the value of General Bsaure-
gard TO the Confederacy. When he went
10 the West every thing seemed in hopeless
confusion. That he should have been able
to gather such an army, and under all his
surroundings to equip and feed them, and
lead them 50 near to victory As he did at
Pittsburgh Landing, and then to withdraw
small order. The blow he struck at Shiloh
postponed the termination Of the war. 1t
was General Beauregard who made possi.
bic the long defense OF the Mississippi
river by his shreTd foresight in ordering
the forti6cation of Eicksburg while there
wss yet time to make q stronghold there.
1t vas his genius that conceived, aud his
tireless industry that created. an impres-
pable barrier OF defensive works about
Charleston. which, even TO the end OF the
war. bsfled the best engineering skill and
.ithstood the most formidable assaults By
1t Was he who, with mere handful Of
men. keld Petersburg against the frst
heavy enset Of General Grants columns,
thereby giving time for the arrival Of Cen
efal Lee with the Army Of Northern Vir.
ginia. and saving Richmond from capture
in the early summer OF 1864. 49,.
Take IL 81 In al the hooks are far the
most able presentation OF the var events
Of the Confedsracy that have been written.
and deserve an honared place In the his.
teric literature,