UNLIKE ANY OTHER BOOK.
A Virginia Girl in the Civil War.
Being the Authentic Experiences of a Confederate
Major's Wife who followed her Husband into Camp at
the Outbreak of the War, Dined and Supped with General
J. E. B. Stuart, ran the Blockade to Baltimore, and was
in Richmond when it was Evacuated. Collected and
edited by Myrta Lockett Avary. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25
net; postage additional.
"The people described are gentlefolk to the back-bone, and the reader
must be a hard-hearted cynic if he does not fall in love with the ingenuous
and delightful girl who tells the story."—New York Sun.
"The narrative is one that both interests and charms. The beginning of
the end of the long and desperate struggle is unusually well told, and how
the survivors lived during the last days of the fading Confederacy forms a
vivid picture of those distressful times."—Baltimore Herald.
"The style of the narrative is attractively informal and chatty. Its
pathos is that of simplicity. It throws upon a cruel period of our national
career a side-light, bringing out tender and softening interests too little visible
in the pages of formal history."—New York World.
"This is a tale that will appeal to every Southern man and woman, and
can not fail to be of interest to every reader. It is as fresh and vivacious,
even in dealing with dark days, as the young soul that underwent the hardships
of a most cruel war."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
"The narrative is not formal, is often fragmentary, and is always warmly
human. . . . There are scenes among the dead and wounded, but as one
winks back a tear the next page presents a negro commanded to mount a
strange mule in midstream, at the injustice of which he strongly protests."—
New York Telegram.
"Taken at this time, when the years have buried all resentment, dulled
all sorrows, and brought new generations to the scenes, a work of this kind
can not fail of value just as it can not fail in interest. Official history moves
with two great strides to permit of the smaller, more intimate events; fiction
lacks the realistic, powerful appeal of actuality; such works as this must be
depended upon to fill in the unoccupied interstices, to show us just what
were the lives of those who were in this conflict or who lived in the midst of
it without being able actively to participate in it. And of this type 'A Virginia
Girl in the Civil War' is a truly admirable example."—Philadelphia
Record.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.
