From the New York Evening Post. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale is one of the very few students of the subject who understands boy nature perfectly, and respects its strength too profoundly to fall into the common error of supposing that the boy love of adventure-stories can be safely suppressed. He is too sound a thinker and writer not to see that the evil quality of vicious juvenile literature is something other than its character as literature of adventure. He understands perfectly not only that stories of adventure are natural and wholesome food for the mind of boys, but that the demand for such food is peremptory; and he knows, therefore, that vicious literature of adventure can be supplanted only by wholesome literature of adventure. Acting upon this conviction, Mr. Hale has begun a series of books which we cannot too earnestly commend to all buyers of books for youth. The first volume in the series, which is the only one yet published, is a collection of "Stories of War told by Soldiers." There is a prefatory chapter which introduces the fictitious personages among whom the stories are told, and with this setting of fiction various accounts of stirring scenes in our late war are presented, in the words of their writers, with connecting and explānatory dialogues among the fictitious personages. The stories relate to the first battle of Bull Run, the fighting at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, General McClellan and the Peninsula, the West Virginia campaign, Antietam, Pittsburg Landing, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Grant's advance on Richmond, Sheridan's ride, the Wilderness, Sherman's great march, Nashville, the siege of Richmond, the last week of the war, and the end of the struggle. The accounts are taken from various sources, the writers represented including Generals Grant, Sheridan, Imboden, Tyler, Schenck, Coppee, Colonel Keyes, Captain Wilkes, and a score or more of other participants in the struggle, some upon one side and some upon the other. The interest of such a book, edited as it is with masterly skill, is apparent, and its value in awakening juvenile interest in history is not less so. The series will be continued by "Stories of the Sea told by Sailors," and "Stories of Adventure told by Adventurers." MR. HALE'S BOY BOOKS. STORIES OF WAR, Told by Soldiers. STORIES OF THE SEA, Told by Sailors. STORIES OF ADVENTURE, Told by Adventurers. STORIES OF DISCOVERY, Told by Discoverers. STORIES OF INVENTION, Told by Inventors. Collected and edited by EDWARD E. HALE. 16mo, For sale by all booksellers, or mailed, post-paid, on ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON. . 1 |