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The Mississippi, by Francis Vinton Greene (Triibner), is the •

eighth of a series of volumes descriptive of the campaigns of the American Civil War. So far as maps, statistics, and actual narra- tion of military movements are concerned, it may be found useful. But the style is exceedingly dull, and the author shows too clearly 'on which side his sympathies lie.