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the authors , are sick and tired of the whole business . ' The River of Dickens . —Of the literary
associations of the lower Medway the strongest areand will bethose connected with Dickens .
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GENERAL GRANT'S MEMOIRS .
Now that the first volume of the ' Personal Memoirs Mars —¦ ton & h of ^» Co —¦ XJ . ) . has ¦ S . Grant appeare -- h- ^^ - h ' d ( Sampson the public HVP - ^ p ^^ pp Low are ,
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has degree been ^ of waited interest . for The with ^ ^ latter a very days powerful of the ^^ great soldierwhen he was bravely and
less silent ailment ly suffer , i , drew ng from to his a protracted hearth the and sympath hope y -
of streng the thene world d . when That it was sym k path nown y was that hi gr eatl last y life ' s effort was directed — — — towards — — .. putting j— - - — <— , in a
career permanent . We form look with the record sorrowful of interes his eventful t u the autograph dedication h imag h rpi jpB ining ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ pon the
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fore indispensable aut , hority upon , the history h of the tak most en lace momentous in modern human times strugg . It le is that also p
In an the invaluable preface book General for G the rant military says that tactician he was . often urged by his friends to write the memoirs
but lie had determined never to do so nor to , his write hors an e y when thing he for -was publ sixty ication -two . years A fall of from age
confined a leasure him . A to commercial the house : crisis study and then the became rasp
the cality General of a business to agree partner to a proposal ultimatel to y induced write a few articles . There is a depth of pathos in
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liberator of millions of his fellow men . The General s : ' I consented for the ¦ money it
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the General , 1 " »^» * >_ l W ¦ TtW AAV ^ . ^_ well ^ BUb * Ml * - " known Grant ^ ¦« ** ' - < M * > ^^ -v »»< ** . * . m * Tt ^ ^ -- ^ p beg » Vplfc f » - Scottish ^ r ^ ins *•*• ^ ¦ - *^ " AAAJk ¦ " - the •* # - »« . ori » - » - - ^ book g •»»¦ in - *— — ^ — of w — b — y t been he q 0 race ing - for ^ ji , ,
generat * My famil ions y , i in s A all merican its Grant Jrant branches , and ttne he founder rounder has , direct of and the tne
branch collateral collatfiraL in . America Mathew Mathew of ( which , , I am a descendant or reached reanhftd Dorchester Dorchester . Massachusetts Massacnusetts , in in lvxay May ,
treated 1630 . ' His and school a , i and nterest college ing port life , ion is of then the book > . nr . lr will will , be V . « found fr . iir very . rf in in the the clear clear and and . vigorous vigorous I
accou Mexico nt and of of arm the y life and of experiences the war in that in means country . disproportionately , m * r This - " » part ¦*¦ — progress ¦ of ¦ the bulky — — — book for is at by no ^ e
A * . *^ - * UV we - *•**• ' ^^ find - »» i | n- » * the " jp- ' " *•• " •* - General — — - - - QJ entering -- ^/ , the arena pa j ^ % in ^ which he was destined to win a deathless fame . _ _ . ¦ i ¦ « •« * w * * * S 4 V to the ft * B I
Referring to President Lincoln ' s appeal I peop ¦ le , he says : The call was for 75 , 000 J |
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^^^^^^ iiiiiii ^^ l j ^ i ^ i ^ iii ^ Pi ^^^^ Dec . 18 , 1885 The Publishers' Circular 1571 ? S ¦ t i _^_—__» . _« .. fc-. _ . „ . . ' ^ . j ¦ . .. »»¦¦¦¦¦¦¦— . . — . Mi '^""* " **———¦—^^^ z 5 , * .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 18, 1885, page 1571, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_18121885/page/3/
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