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T. A. BURKE, Editor.
MACON, GA., OCT. 29, 1870.
Death of General Lee.
Robert E. Lee, the
lit |'4r eminent soldier, the profound
scholar, and the pious Chris-
tian gentleman, died at his
(7JJ residence in Lexington, Va.,
c) at half-past nine o’clock, Wed
nesday morning, October 12th, aged
sixty-three years, eight months, and
twenty-three days. Since the time of
the great Washington, no man has
lived who combined so many of the
virtues that distinguished that wonder
fnl man, as General Lee; and the en
tire nation, if not the civilized world,
mourns his loss. Such men as Wash
ington and Lee are only seen once in
a lifetime !
The following tribute to General Lee,
from the N. O. Picayune, is so good
that we reprint it in our columns:
“ A hero ceases from his work, and
the places that knew him shall know
him no more forever. It is not hard to
say so. His glorious deeds might be
enumerated. We might tell how he
was descended, how he was educated,
how he rose to distinction and renown,
how he was held by his brother soldiers,
how he studied, how he labored, and
how he won the confidence and love of
his countrymen. But this is all well
known. He was admired and loved as
a citizen. He was trusted and esteem
ed as a friend. He was honored as a
soldier. He was followed as a guide.
He was almost worshipped as a heroic
commander. He had no equal as a
strategist. He was calm in the midst
of storms of troubles. He trusted when
others despaired. He turned defeat in
to victory. He animated his armies
with his own great spirit. He was
tolerant of the errors by which his
great designs were thwarted. He pa
tiently bore official restraints. All
these, and many more and greater, are
mere facts of historical record, familiar
to us all, and easy to recapitulate. But
the hero is gone from us, and words
cannot interpret the sorrow, the deep,
bitter, voiceless mourning of his coun
trymen. We can only look upon his
cold remains with silent grief. Life
currents are driven back to the heart;
utterance is impossible ; the hand that
would eulogize is palsied. The heavy
gloom and thick black pall of mourn
ing bears on all his orphaned country
men. They are overwhelmed with a
dumb and motionless grief. They can
BURKE’S WEEKLY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
only look down through tears upon the
noble form now cold in death. They
cannot speak their woe, nor do we
know any language into which it can be
translated. Their hearts are in his
coffin, and not until they ‘come back’
can they look upon each other to utter
their tremendous sorrow. He wrote
his own history in noble deeds : it will
be re-written in language that will des
cend to remotest ages. He left the im
press of his great character upon his
race and era: it will be transmitted in
brass, and marble, and eloquence, and
in poesy. He has stamped his name
on the world’s history as a stainless,
guileless, faultless gentleman and sol
dier. His name is an honor to his
profession, to his State, to the Conti
nent, and to the century. If we select
from all history a thousand names of
the noblest and best, that of Robert E.
Lee will stand an equal with them all.
He is gone from us, and his noble form
will be seen by us no more. But he
lives still, and will always live, by the
memory of his goodness, his purity,
and his heroism.”
New Books.
Little Mary and the Fairy. By Harriot B.
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The Fatherland Series.
The “Lutheran Board of Publica
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English translations of German books
for youth. It has directed its attention
especially to the extraordinarily popu
lar writings of Franz Hoffman and kin
dred writers. The English translations
appear in beautiful binding and elegant
style in general, and every book con
tains one or more finely executed en
gravings. There can be no doubt that
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also accompany these translations —
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ceived: “In the Midst of the North
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Mrs. Jane T. H. Cross.
tBSENCE from home at the
time prevented us from no
ticing the death of this estinia-
CV-rA ble Christian lady, which oc
curred at Nolin, Ky., on the
V 9 morning of September 29. In
the death of Mrs. Cross, this paper has
lost one of its most cherished friends
and esteemed correspondents, and the
children of the entire South one whose
place will not soon be filled. She was
a lady of very rare accomplishments —
not the least of which was her wonder
ful power of instructing and amusing
the little people. She loved children,
and her contributions to the Sunday
School Visitor and to Burke’s Weekly
were among the very best ever publish
ed in those papers. She died as she
lived in the full hope of a blessed im
mortality. “ For so He giveth His be
loved sleep.”
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The Little Soldier.
AVINGr learned that the publi
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weekly is looked upon with
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—in consequence of its inter
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with a desire to avoid any such rivalry,
we have concluded not to publish it
weekly, and to discontinue the semi
monthly issue as soon as the present
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Godey’s Lady’s Book.
illustrations for November
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thirty-three designs of dresses,
and other articles of the wardrobe;
riding-habit; hats, bonnets, etc.; va
rious designs for the work-table, etc.
The fancy alphabet for marking is a
fine illustration.
It would be impossible for us to enu
merate all the beauties of this number,
both literary and pictorial.
Terms, $3 a year. Address, L. A.
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unaccountably delayed somewhere.
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