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190 Northern Virginia, which I find so entertaining and instructive that I venture, holding fast to that lecture as a text, but invoking also my personal acquaintance with the leading actors, and my practical knowledge of the field of operations (which I have twice traversed on horseback from one end to the other), to give to my comrades-in-arms as a detailed picture of that drama of the Valley of Virginia.

, because only her immediate family would weep for her, and all the world would weep for him (and for whom General Fitz. Lee, in his address before the Army of Northern Virginia Association, expressed the earnest hope that if still alive she was "beloved and happy"), it will be interesting to our readers to state was Miss Lucy Chandler, but who has been for some years Mrs. Charles K. Pendleton. As the wife of a brave Confederate soldier and worthy gentleman, and the mother of several children, she has already realized the wish of the gallant cavalier.

Works of Miss Emily V. Mason: 1. Southern Poems of the War—collected and arranged by Miss Emily V. Mason, of Virginia. This beautifully gotten up book is edited with Miss Mason's well-known literary taste, and contains many gems which should find a place in our household poetry. It should be in every library, and our children should be taught many of its soul-stirring verses.

2. "Journal of a Young Lady in Virginia, 1782." This is a curious very interesting sketch of the manners and customs of the best society in Virginia of the period of which it treats.

3. "Popular Life of General R. E. Lee." The design of this book clearly indicated by the following letter of dedication to Mrs. Lee:

Miss Mason is an exceedingly clever writer, and has used her material with a skill and good taste which makes her book exceedingly interesting and very valuable as a picture of the inner life of our grand old Chieftain.