Books Received

Book Reviews199 the Yankees; it has an EngUsh officer who is cashiered from his regiment because he is too honorable to reveal the shortcomings of a brother officer; it has a heroine named Eugenie who is a perfect lady, but who sometimes gets involuntarily disarranged ("the whole of a snowy, pink-tipped, perfectìy rounded breast, rising and falUng with each breath, lay before his eyes. He fought to control his breathing and wrenched his gaze away") ; it has a French sea captain who speaks perfect EngUsh except for Mon Dieu and mon enfant (he does not, however, say tiensl); most of all, it has fights. Its protagonists fight Comanches, thirst, the Federals, Mexican bandits, rapists, northers, wild boars, ratders, and sin. And they do it in prose such as this: "Lance, his face grim, stayed on his knees a few seconds more. He was no stranger to deaüi, but the quickness, the unexpected manner of this first fatality stunned him for a moment. Then the double nature of the calamity smote him and galvanized him into furious action." For those who are interested in side arms, there is also a lady who wears a brace of what are twice described as "Dragon pistols." The jacket of the paper-back edition should be a rouser. William E. Porter Iowa City, Iowa. Books Received Anderson, John Q., editor. Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1955. Pp. xxii, 400. $4.95.) Reviewed in this issue. Barondess, Benjamin. Three Lincoln Masterpieces. (Charleston, West Virginia: Education Foundation of West Virginia, Inc. 1954. Pp. ix, 156. $3.00.) Cockrell, Monroe F., editor. The Lost Account of the Battle of Corinth and the Court Martial of Gen. Van Dorn. (Jackson, Tennessee: McCowat-Mercer Press. 1955. Pp. 78. $1.50.) Freitag, Alfred J. Detroit in the Civil War. (Detroit: Wayne University Press. 1951. Pp. 20. $0.15.) Jones, Katharine M. Heroines of Dixie. (IndianapoUs and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1955. Pp. xiv, 430. $5.00.) Kurtz, Wilbur G., compiler. The Atlanta Cyclorama: Tlie Story of the Famed Battle of Atlanta. (The City of Atlanta, Georgia. 1954. Pp. 32. $1.00.) Lagard, Garald. Leaps the Live Thunder. (New York: WilUam Morrow and Company. 1955. Pp. 256. $3.50.) McCormick, Robert R. The War Without Grant. (New York: The Bond Wheelwright Company. 1950. Pp. 230. $7.50.) Reviewed in Ulis issue. Miers, Earl Schneck. The Web of Victory: Grant at Vicksburg. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1955. Pp. xiv, 320, xii. $5.00.) Standard, Diffee William. Columbus, Georgia, in the Confederacy. (New York: The WilUam-Frederick Press. 1954. Pp. 77. $2.00.) WilUams, T. Harry. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1954. Pp. xii, 345. $4.75.) ...