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Our Living and Our Dead.

The editor and proprietor, Colonel S. D. Pool, has donated to our library three beautifully bound volumes of this magazine, which he has been publishing in Raleigh, North Carolina. It contains a great deal of historic value, and is a highly prized addition to our library.


Books Received.

We acknowledge the receipt of the following books, which will be noticed more fully hereafter:

From D. Appleton & Co., New York:

Cooke's Life of General R. E. Lee.
A Military Biography of Stonewall Jackson. By Colonel John Esten Cooke. With an appendix (containing an account of the Inauguration of Foley's statue, &c.), by Rev. J. Wm. Jones.
General Joseph E. Johnston's Narrative.
Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes and Letters of General R. E. Lee. By Rev. J. Wm. Jones, D. D.
Sherman's Memoirs and Shucker's Life of Chief Justice Chase.

From the publishers, Harper Brothers, New York (through West & Johnston, Richmond):

Draper's Civil War in America.

From J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia (through West & Johnston):

Dixon's New America.

From West & Johnston, Richmond:

A beautiful lithograph of the Ordnance of Secession of Virginia, and the signatures of the members of the convention.

From the author (Dr. Joseph Jones, New Orleans):

Medical and Surgical Memoirs, 1855-1876.