"Beyond question the best story of the Civil War that has appeared of recent years.... Veterans who took part in the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac will follow every page with absorbed interest ... so detailed and seemingly so accurate are the descriptions of battlefields and of the positions occupied by the two armies at different times. The book deserves to be put among the works of history dealing with the Civil War, rather than among the works of fiction, so great is the preponderance of fact. It is due to the author's power for graphic presentation of detail, and his keen regard for the fears and emotions of his hero, that his book contains much of the interest of a novel while containing more historical truth than most historical fictions."—The Springfield Republican.
"Unquestionably this production ranks with the very best stories that have been written about the great rebellion.... No veteran of the war could read of the gallant work done so systematically, yet modestly, by the almost unknown soldier, Jones Berwick, and add anything to the charm of the tale."—Evening Post, Chicago.
THE HOSTS OF THE LORD
By FLORA ANNIE STEEL
Author of "On the Face of the Waters," "Voices in the Night," etc.
Cloth. 12mo. $1.50
"'The Hosts of the Lord' is a very dramatic and absorbing story; once embarked on its broad current, one is carried swiftly to the final catastrophe.... The novel is not only dramatic in the sense of presenting a well-defined plot, relating the actors to it and carrying the narrative on to a tragic climax; it is also full of atmospheric effects; the languor, the heat, the passion of nature in the East are in it."—Hamilton W. Mabie.