Text extracted from opening pages of book: CONFEDERATE PORTRAITS BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY # i& e pre$ Cambridge MDGCCCXIV JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON COPYRIGHT, 1912, AND 1913, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE NBALE PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published April 1( 314. TO MARVIN SPRAGUE Est aliquid sacri in antlquis necessitudinibus La critique pour moi, c'est le plaisir de connaitre ...
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Text extracted from opening pages of book: CONFEDERATE PORTRAITS BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY # i& e pre$ Cambridge MDGCCCXIV JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON COPYRIGHT, 1912, AND 1913, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE NBALE PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published April 1( 314. TO MARVIN SPRAGUE Est aliquid sacri in antlquis necessitudinibus La critique pour moi, c'est le plaisir de connaitre les esprits, non de les regenter. Sainte-Beuve. PREFACE WHAT has impressed me most in revising these portraits is their lack of finality. Nous sommes des & tres mobiles et nousjugeons des tres mobiles. No two men will take the same view of another man. Traits which seem most sig nificant to some, to others seem negligible. Some will overlook a little vice for a great virtue, while to others the little vice makes even the great virtue an object of suspicion. Again, one may seize justly, yet be led away in the presentation. It is difficult to give various qualities their exact proportion and emphasis. One may stress a marked trait too strongly and so make it too marked and spoil that balance which is everywhere essential to the truth of nature. One may establish one's portrait in a tone which is not perfectly suited to the temper of the subject. Thus, the portraits here given of Johnston and of Stuart are keyed quite differently. I cannot see the two men other wise. But others may feel that I have struck a false note in one case, or in the other, or in both. This difficulty, or impossibility, of attaining anything final may make psychography seem a useless and unprofitable art. Such it would be, if finality were its ob ject. It is not. The psychographer does not attempt to say the complete and permanent word about any of his subjects. He knows that such an attempt would be in x PREFACE deed futile. Instead, he aims simply to facilitate to others, even a little, what he has himself found to be the most fascinating and inexhaustible of pursuits, the study of the human soul In this study, if there were complete finality, if you could exhaust the book, even any one particular book, even your own, and shut it with a snap, half the fascination would be gone. The wisest of us hardly dares say, with the soothsayer in Antony and Cleopatra, In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read. In some of these Confederate portraits there may be thought to be a note of undue harshness. All I can say is that I have endeavored to display and to insist upon the high and fine qualities manifest in every case. To pass over or slight the shadows seemed to me neither just nor wise. As to any partiality in the matter, after careful self-examination, I can discover no motive which could lead me to anything of the sort, unless it were an un due desire to exalt Lee. Of this I am not conscious, and, if I have not been misled by some such influence, I feel that the net result of careful study of Lee's companions in arms is to bring out more than ever the serene elevation of his greatness. Some of them were, perhaps, more brilliant than he, some greater orators, some profounder think ers, some even as capable soldiers. Not one approaches him in those moral qualities, which, as Mr. Adams has justly pointed out, place him, as they do Washington, far above those whoaided him in his terrible struggle. PREFACE xi During my prolonged study of Lee's contemporaries, which compelled me to take note of their various faults and weaknesses, I have also continued my careful watch for similar weaknesses in Lee himself. The suggestion of anything of the kind has been rare enough; but in justice to Johnston and Longstreet and Beauregard I think it right to print the folio wing very curious passage from a letter of General G. W. Smith to Johnston him self, written in the summer of 1862, before Lee had thor oughly established his great reputation
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Very Good-with no dust jacket. Covers show light wear and minor stains. Ex-library with removed spine number and removed rear pocker---no other markings or stamps.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 291 pages.
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Good. ***Please Read*** Book shows moderate wear with a PO name on the front pastedown and no DJ, but a clear plastic DJ replacement (see pictures)-minor foxing in the text block, otherwise the interior is tight and clean-291 pages-my shelf location-42-a-24.
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Very Good + No Jacket. Book. Octavo. 291 (1) pp, illus. April, 1914. Light wear at all corners, foxed prelims and age toned text block. No markings, binding tight, clean. 6" x 9". Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine faded.
