• and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The campaigns of General Nathan Bedford
'orrest give many a fine opportunity for romance, for the leader was one of the most memorable personalities in a great epodh, and civil war, waged as he waged it, brought into strange conflict love and duty, friendship and loyalty. Mr. Harris, best known as the creator of the immortal "Uncle Remus," has taken for his hero a young soldier of the South, who is ordered t by Forrest to capture a certain Captain Leroy, a Federal scout, who has eluded all the vigilance of the Confederates. Leroy , 'turns out to be a young woman, and the hero promptly falls in love with her. He succeeds in bringing her to Forrest, who releases her, and after some further adventures the lovers part, sworn to meet again one year after peace. The action is a little . inconsequent, and many of the incidents seem only designed to bring the lovers together. The result is that there is a general air of amateurishness about the fighting, and the adventures scarcely stir us as proper adventures should. But the love-making is very gracefully done, and "Captain Leroy" is a true heroine of romance. Of the male characters, we prefer the negro, " Whistling Jim," who has a gift of turning up just at the right moment whenever his master is in trouble, and has a very pretty notion of using his hands.
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