23 APRIL 1864, Page 21

Cudjo's Case. By T. T. Trowbridge. (Trubner.)—Another of the ephemeral

books produced by the American struggle, none of which as yet seem likely to live. The object of the writer seems to be to paint the violence of all Southern men towards abolitionists, and his picture is certainly repulsive enough. We should doubt, however, if any Southerner even when commanding Germans ever had his mother flogged by mistake as an abolitionist, and sensation incidents of that kind take all sense of probability from a story which otherwise seems life-like enough, though written in a curious style of exaggeration. What is a ghost's whisper like ?