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=With Lee in Virginia:= A Story of the American Civil War. By G.A.
Henty. With 10 full-page Illustrations by Gordon Browne.
Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, _6s_.
The great war between the Northern and Southern States of America
has the special interest for English boys of having been a struggle
between two sections of a people akin to us in race and language--a
struggle fought out by each side with unusual intensity of
conviction in the rightness of its cause, and abounding in heroic
incidents. Of these points Mr. Henty has made admirable use in this
story of a young Virginian planter, who, after bravely proving his
sympathy with the slaves, serves with no less courage and
enthusiasm under Lee and Jackson through the most exciting events
of the struggle. He has many hairbreadth escapes, is several times
wounded and twice taken prisoner; but his courage and readiness
bring him safely through all difficulties.