Frank Beard, the artist whose remarkable pictures so aptly illustrate the story, was himself also a soldier in those days. He has said, in regard to the drawings, that he just reached back into the knapsack which he used to carry and brought out Of it these sketches of men and things as he saw them then In the work of explicating and illuminating the graphic phases of this story Mr. Beard has been a most sympathetic and dis cerning artist. Jesse bowman young.

Office OF the central christian advocate, st. Louis, mo., February I, 1894.

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