The Cotton Trade in the Confederate States. By G. McHenry.
(Saun- ders, Otley, and Co.)—In ill-arranged, ill-writton book, of which the name is misleading. We find in it a justification of secession, a jus- tification of slavery, and of the Mississippi repudiation; criticisms on "British opinion prior to the dissolution of the Union," of Mr. Bright's speeches, of those of Mr. Seward and Mr. Lincoln, and many statements that the South is richer, more industrious, better cultivated, and more populous than the North; in which case they certainly ought to have had more success in war, and not to have lost successively Missouri, New Orleans, Kentucky, and Arkansas, and Tennessee. A connected and consistent account of the past history of the cotton trade or its future prospects, on the other hand, we do not find.
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