+Ind. 58: 1312. Je. 8, ‘05. 100w.

“The book contains in a very readable form a deal of information about the Confederacy, which Mr. Eggleston had first hand. Mr. Eggleston overemphasizes certain features, but there is a certain advantage in that, for they are just the features which other writers have been apt to ignore.”

+N. Y. Times. 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w.

“The book still outranks in interest almost all other reminiscences of the Civil war.”

+ +Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.

Eldridge, George Dyre. Milibank case. [†]$1.50. Holt.

A detective story whose scene is laid in Maine near the Canadian border. The plot centers about the murder of a young lawyer, supposedly without enemies, and involves prominent state politicians. The tangle undertaken by two detectives contains at its close a surprise for detective and reader alike.

“The story is fluently told, and is not ungenial as murders go.”

+ —Nation. 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 200w.

“Is only a fair example of the art.”