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IN the opening lines of his Divina Commedia the great poet of the Middle Ages depicts, in a few energetic words, the glance that the traveller rescued from the storm casts at the ‘perilous waters’ which he has just crossed.¹ The people of the Northern States in the early days of July, 1863, could thus cast a long retrospective look at the experiences which they had just encountered, like the shipwrecked voyager who, landing upon the shore, turns to glance at the angry billows which break impotent at his feet. The events which closely followed the twofold

1 . . . Come quei che, con lena affannata,
Uscito fuor del pelago alla riva
Si volge alla acqua perigliosa, e guata;
Cosi l'animo mio, cha ancor fuggiva,
Si volse 'ndietro a rimirar lo passo
Che no lascio giammai persona viva.

. . . . As he, who, with distressful breath,
Forth issued from the sea upon the shore,
Turns to the water perilous and gazes;
So did my soul that still was fleeing onward,
Turn itself back to re-behold the pass
Which never yet a living person left.

Longfellow's Translation.

Philadelphia, Jos. H. Coates and co., 1888.

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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4.
Henry Coppee , LL.D., Ed.

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