British scholar Barry, author of the excellent two-volume The Franco-Prussian War: 1870-1871, and several other books on particular campaigns during that war, is ideally suited to be the author of ...

The answer is "Yes," if Quintin Barry's book is the one we're talking about. No work can ever cover everything, and Barry's work is less a replacement for these two works as it is a companion and ...

But if Hawthorne's life in England were not entirely to his taste, it was profitable, and bore good fruit; for we owe to it two remarkable books,—Our Old Home, published in 1863, and the ...