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Having read the new work entitled "ALIDA," or Miscellaneous Sketches of Occurrences during the late American War, which abounds with elegance of language, sublime poetry, and useful lessons--as an American, I have a pride in saying, that our press has seldom been honoured with a work as improving and interesting to the reader, and as well written as any to be found either among the older or modern authors. | Alida by Amelia Stratton Comfield 1 Alida by Amelia Stratton Comfield The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alida by Amelia Stratton Comfield This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Alida or Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Author Amelia Stratton Comfield Release Date September 6 2010 EBook 33647 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALIDA Produced by Louise Hope The text of Alida is given twice. First it is presented straight as printed. This is followed by the same text paragraph by paragraph quoting its sources where known some significant errors of fact are also noted. Footnotes are in the original. Typographical errors are listed after the first version of the text. Alida by Amelia Stratton Comfield 2 Having read the new work entitled ALIDA or Miscellaneous Sketches of Occurrences during the late American War which abounds with elegance of language sublime poetry and useful lessons--as an American I have a pride in saying that our press has seldom been honoured with a work as improving and interesting to the reader and as well written as any to be found either among the older or modern authors. J. H. HARDENBROOK. It may be here proper to rectify a slight mistake in two of the complimentary pieces written on the contents of Alida in which the work was innocently stated to have been expressly written for the aid of benevolent purposes instead of which it should have read expressly printed for the aid of benevolent purposes. The truth is some part was written as a journal of incidents and to amuse leisure hours somewhat usefully other parts to commemorate some particular facts for the gratification of the author and near relatives not expecting any other eye to .