It may be added that a life of General Robert E. Lee had been projected, as a companion volume to this in the same series, by Brigadier-General Frederick Maurice, C.B., and it is to be hoped that, though suspended by the present war, this book may still be written.  Existing biographies of Lee are disappointing.  It has been (especially in view of this intended book on Lee) outside the scope of this volume to present the history of the Civil War with special reference to the Southern actors in it, but “Memoirs of Jefferson Davis” must be here referred to as in some sense an authoritative, though not a very attractive or interesting, exposition of the views of Southern statesmen at the time.

An interesting sidelight on the war may be found in “Life with the Confederate Army,” by Watson, being the experiences of a Scotchman who for a time served under the Confederacy.

In regard to slavery and to Southern society before the war the author has made much use of “Our Slave States,” by Frederick Law Olmsted; Dix and Edwards, New York, 1856, and other works of the same author.  Mr. Olmsted was a Northerner, but his very full observations can be checked by the numerous quotations on the same subject collected by Mr. Rhodes in his history.

For the history of the South since the war and the present position of the negroes, see the chapters on this subject in Bryce’s “American Commonwealth,” second or any later edition, two volumes:  Macmillan, London and New York.

Mr. Owen Wister’s novel, “Lady Baltimore”:  Macmillan, London and New York, embraces a most interesting study of the survivals of the old Southern society at the present time and of the present relations between it and the North.

The treatment of the negroes freed during the war is the main subject of “Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen,” by John Eaton and E. O. Mason:  Longmans, Green & Co., London and New York, a book to which the author is also indebted for other interesting matter.

The personal memoirs, and especially the autobiographies dealing with the Civil War, are very numerous, and the author therefore would only wish to mention those which seem to him of altogether unusual interest.  “Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant”:  Century Company, New York, is a book of very high order (Sherman’s memoirs:  Appleton, New York, and his correspondence with his brother:  Scribner, New York, have also been quoted in these pages).

Great interest both in regard to Lincoln personally and to the history of the United States after his death attaches to “Reminiscences,” by Carl Schurz, three volumes (Vol.  I. being concerned with Germany in 1848):  John Murray, London, and Doubleday Page, New York, and to “The Life of John Hay,” by W. R. Thayer, two volumes:  Constable & Co., London, and Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A.

The author has derived much light from “Specimen Days, and Collect,” by Walt Whitman:  Wilson and McCormick, Glasgow, and McKay, U.S.A.