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The Crisis of the Confederacy. By Captain Cecil Battine. (Longman

and Co. 16s. not.)-This volume is substantially a history of the American Civil War, though special attention is given to the Gettysburg campaign (June 27th-July 14th, 1863), and to Grant's operations in the Wilderness in May and June, 1864. We have not space at command to follow Captain Battine's excellently lucid narrative, but must be content with generally commending it to our readers. They can hardly find a more satisfactory narrative, with so much matter in so moderato a space. The story of years of serious fighting is compressed into something leas than four hundred pages. Then comes a chapter in which the lessons of the war are drawn in a very instructive way.