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Current Literature.

SCHOOL BOOKS. The Iliad of Homer. A Literal Prose Translation. By II. Hail- stone, M.A. (Johnson, Cambridge; Cornish and Sons, London)— " He tore much hair from the roots out......

The Military History Of General Grant.*

[SECOND NOTICE.] THE situation early in March, 1864, when Grant took command of the Federal forces, was briefly as follows. Meade, with the Army of the Potomac, on the northern......