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P. JOS. OSTERHAUS, Major General U.S. Vols. Major General CARL SCHURZ, Present. No. 11. Mobile, Ala., September 9, 1865. I do not interfere with civil affairs at all, unless called upon by the governor of the State to assist the civil authorities.
By far the ablest and most thorough book on the government of the United States that has ever been published is Bryce's American Commonwealth, 2 vols., London and N.Y., 1888. No American citizen's education is properly completed until he has read the whole of it carefully. In connection therewith, the work of Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols., 6th ed., Boston, 1876, is interesting.
By Mrs THOMPSON. 2 Vols. Colburn. From time immemorial the German universities have been regarded as the seats of patient, persevering, indefatigable, but also unprofitable, erudition.
Among the best Protestant histories may be cited: T. M. Lindsay, A History of the Reformation, 2 vols. VI and VII; A. H. Newman, A Manual of Church History, Vol. II , Period V; G. P. Fisher, History of the Christian Church , Period VIII, ch. i- xii.
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The Report on Manufactures, Executive Documents, 22d Cong., 1st Sess., 2 vols., is a rare and valuable work; and Executive Documents, 34th Cong., 1st Sess., vol. 4, gives the statistics of manufactures down to 1850 by States. Darby and Dwight's New Gazetteer of the United States , and J. L. Bishop's History of American Manufactures , are useful if sometimes exasperating.
To COL. T. W. HIGGINSON, Commanding 1st Regt. S. C. Vols., Port Royal Id., S. C. COLONEL, I am under obligations to you for your very interesting letter of January 19th, which I considered to be too important in its testimony to the efficiency of colored troops to be allowed to remain hidden on my files. I therefore placed some portions of it in the hands of Hon.
It is difficult to give a list of books illustrating foreign policy in general. The lists given in other chapters sufficiently illustrate the various problems with which foreign policy to-day has to deal. The diplomacy of a century ago is well illustrated by the Diaries and Correspondence of the Earl of Malmesbury. 4 vols. 1844. Life of Lord Granville, by Lord Fitzmaurice. 2 vols. 1905.
NATIONAL LITERATURES. Among the many extended bibliographies of national literatures the student certainly should be familiar with the Cambridge History of English Literature, ed. by A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller, 12 vols.
For interesting personal impressions of the Revolution by an American eye-witness, see Gouverneur Morris, Diary and Letters, 2 vols. . F. M. and H. D. Fling, Source Problems on the French Revolution , is a useful compilation for intensive critical study of various phases of the Revolution. I, 1789-1791 , Vol.
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