Ed. Comments:
Since Dr. McCune has entered the
ministry, we trust that his talent is
at length well invested, and that he is
doing good work.
Gordon Nye is in New York City,
among the heathen.
John Esten Cooke’s Life of Lee is a
most readable and valuable work.
Dr. J. William Jones’ Reminiscen
ces of Lee was “authorized” by the
Lee family and by the Faculty of
the Washington and Lee University.
Then, there is the “Life” by Fitz
hugh Lee, and another by Dr. All
friend, and the book on same subject
by Robert E. Lee, Jr., the son of our
great soldier.
Upon the whole, we incline to think
that John Esten Cooke may have
drawn the most life-like picture of
Lee, and given the most stirring and
satisfactory account of his work. Cook
was a staff officer, first under Gen.
Stonewall Jackson and then under
Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. This being so,
he came in contact with Lee early in
the Civil War and was with him to the
last. He saw the superb soldier in
all the varying phases of the strug
gle, was a party of the vast tragedy
in which Lee was the commanding
figure, and his book is indispensable
to anyone who wants to become ac
quainted "with the real Lee.
Sydney George Fisher’s Life of
Franklin is perhaps the best, but you
must read Benjamin’s Autobiography,
also.
December 20, 7908.
B. R. Collins, Blakley, Ga.:
“There is more information in your
two Jeffersonians for a young man
than all other periodicals published.
Find check enclosed for subscription
to March 1910. Also send me “Water
loo” and your “Sketches or Roman
History.”
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December 19, 1908.
Edward W. Walker, Jr., Westfield,
N. Y.
