. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . , G. T. Beauregard (captain, A.). The change in the legal arrangement was madeby my removal from the first place on the list to thefourth. Information of these nominations and their confirma-tion came to me at the same time. On receiving it Iwrote to the President such a statement as the pre-ceding, and also expressed my sense of the wrongdone me. But, in order that sense of injury might n
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . , G. T. Beauregard (captain, A.). The change in the legal arrangement was madeby my removal from the first place on the list to thefourth. Information of these nominations and their confirma-tion came to me at the same time. On receiving it Iwrote to the President such a statement as the pre-ceding, and also expressed my sense of the wrongdone me. But, in order that sense of injury might notbetray me into the use of language improper from anofficer to the President, I laid aside the letter for twodays, and then examined it dispassionately, I believe ;and was confident that what it contained was not im-proper to be said by a soldier to the President, norimproperly said. The letter was, therefore, is said that it irritated him greatly, and that his irri-tation was freely expressed. The animosity against methat he is known to have entertained ever since was at-tributed by my acquaintances in public life, in Rich-mond at the time, to this letter.—Narrative^ Chap. > . J OIN VILLE, Jean de, a French chronicler andstatesman, born in the ancestral castle of Join-ville on the Marne, in Champagne, about 1224;died there, July 16, 1317. He accompanied LouisIX. in his first crusade or expedition to Egypt in1248, sharing his masters captivity, and render-ing him man) important services. In the Kingssecond crusade, however, he declined taking apart; and subsequently employed himself in writ-ing his MimoireSy on VHistoire et Chronique du TresChretien Roi St. Louis, in which he has left us abeautiful portraiture of the King, a very graphicnarrative of the crusade, and one of the most im-portant aids to a knowledge of the memorableperiod in which he lived. The style of Joinville, says Van Laun, pos-sesses in advance all the clearness and precisionwhich we
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