The Life of Stonewall Jackson. By Hon. J. M. Daniels,
a Virginian.
(Bacon and Co.)—General Jackson is greatly to be pitied. A short modest narrative of the exploits of so heroic a character could not but be acceptable, but this production is almost enough to make even Jack- son ridiculous. As a narrative of his military operations it is incon- ceivably confused and discursive, of his character and domestic habits it tells us little or nothing, and it is intermingled from first to last with the most preposterous eulogy. Mr. Daniels actually pronounces him to be "one of the three or four great masters of the art of war which [sic] the world has known ;" and elsewhere says that he was "greater than Napoleon "—" allied to him in capacity for making war, nor his inferior; in all else wholly and incomparably superior." Mr. Daniels does not seem to know that Napoleon was hardly less remarkable as a civil organizer than as a general.
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