nstant receipt of letters pointing out this fact, and
expressing the wish that a complete naval history of the four years
might be written by competent hands. This testimony was hardly needed
to suggest the want; but it was a strong encouragement to ask the
co-operation of naval officers in supplying it. An effort made in this
direction resulted in the cordial adoption and carrying out of plans
by which Messrs. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS are enabled to
publish a work of the highest authority and interest, covering this
entire field, in the following three volumes, giving the whole
narrative of Naval Operations from 1861 to 1865.

=_I.--The Blockade and the Cruisers._=
By Professor J. RUSSELL SOLEY, U.S. Navy.

=_II.--The Atlantic Coast._=
By Rear-Admiral DANIEL AMMEN, U.S. Navy.

=_III.--The Gulf and Inland Waters._=
By Commander A.T. MAHAN, U.S. Navy.

The Volumes are uniform in size with the Series of "Campaigns of the
Civil War," and contain maps and diagrams prepared under the direction
of the authors.

=_Price per volume, $1.00._=

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS,
743 AND 745 Broadway, NEW YORK.

MESSRS. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
publish, under the general title of

THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE CIVIL WAR,

A Series of volumes, contributed by a number of leading actors in and
students of the great conflict of 1861-'65, with a view to bringing
together, for the first time, a full and authoritative military
history of the suppression of the Rebellion.

The final and exhaustive form of this great narrative, in which
every doubt shall be settled and every detail covered, may be a
possibility only of the future. But it is a matter for surprise
that twenty years after the beginning of the Rebellion, and when
a whole generation has grown up needing such knowledge, there is
no authority which is at the same time of the highest rank,
intelligible and trustworthy, and to which a reader can turn for
any general view of the field.

The many reports, regimental histories, memoirs, and other
materials of value for special passages, require, for their
intelligent reading, an ability to combine and proportion them
which the ordinary reader does not possess. There have been no
attempts at general histories which have supplied this
satisfactorily to any large part of the public. Undoubtedly
there has been no such narrative as would b