Richmond Enquirer:

Review of Augusta Jane Evans' Macaria

"Macaria."--We acknowledge from Messrs. West & Johnston the last work of the distinguished Southern romancist, "the author of Beulah," entitled, "Macaria; or The Altars of Sacrifice." The work is gotten out in very neat style, and this, with the reputation of the author, will secure for it a rapid sale.--It bears the following dedication: "To the Army of the Southern Confederacy, who have delivered the South from despotism, and who have won for generations yet unborn the precious guerdon of constitutional republican liberty: To this vast legion of honor, whether limping on crutches through the land they have saved, and immortalized, or surviving uninjured, so share the blessings their unexampled heroism bought, or sleeping dreamlessly in nameless martyr-graves on hallowed battle-fields, whose historic memory shall perish only with the remnants of our languages, these pages are gravely and reverently dedicated, by one who, although debarred from the dangers and deathless glory of 'the tented field,' would fain offer a woman's inadequate tribute to the noble patriotism and sublime self abnegation of her dear and voted countrymen."

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