King's Jr wain and its Heroes. By Lyman C. Draper,
LL.D. (P. G. Thompson, Cincinnati ; Sampson Low and Co., London.)--It is just possible that every English reader may not know that King's Mountain is in South Carolina, and that the " Whigs" and "Tories" fought a battle there, with some twelve hundred combatants on each side, which had the result of much furthering the cause of Independ- ence in those parts. Dr. Draper has taken, it is evident, vast pains in collecting the materials for this volume, a stout octavo of six hundred pages and more (he has, he tells us, materials for ten more of the same kind). Every particular that could be found about the combatants is here set forth, very much, doubtless, to the interest of local readers, to whom these books are as " Peerages," " Genea- logies," and so forth, to us. To find an ancestor who fought at King's
Mountain is, we suppose, to a South Carolinian much the same as it is to be able to claim relationship with some knight who appears on the Roll of Battle Abbey.
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