The Second War of Independence in America. By E. M.
Hudson. (Longman and Co.) _North and South. By the "White Republican" of Fraser's Magazine. (Chapman and Hall.)--These two volumes, both of which are the work of Americans, are designed to advocate the cause of the South. The author of that to which we have given precedence is a gentleman who lately held the office of Acting Assistant-Secretary of Legation to the American Mission to the Court of Prussia ; and he appears to have written his book, in the first instance, in the German language, the volume before us being a simple translation executed by himself. By way, we presume, of recommending his work to the English public, he has adorned it with an introduction by a gentleman named Bolling A. Pope, who dwells much on the fact that the English people in general, and the Conservatives in particular, are specially marked out by nature as allies of the South. Mr. Hudson's book is not a good specimen of the class to which it belongs. His arguments are not new, nor are they for the most part put so effectively as has already been done by other writers on the same side. The chapter in defence of slavery which has been added to this edition is, as might perhaps be expected, the weakest of all. North and South consists of a collection of detached and rather desultory papers, some, at least, of which have, we believe, already appeared in Fraser's Magazine. Their author appears to be, despite his strong Southern sympathies, a native of New England, who was brought up 'at the feet of Webster, and edited for fifteen years a daily paper in New York. The remarks -which we have made upon Mr. Hudson's book will apply equally to that of the " White Republican." Neither one nor the other possesses either sufficient originality or sufficient vigour to be of any material service to the cause which both are alike designed to promote.
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