Quarterly Retrospect
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January, 1862. " A sad tale's best for winter," says Mamillius in the " Winter's Tale." The Quarter's Retrospect will, in some sense, prove a gloss upon this line of the poet, for it will consist of a bare record of murder and suicide; and if the sad recitals we are about to note, should induce greater attention on the part of our readers in the winter time, than at any other period of the year, to the circumstances out of which they have arisen, then we may admit that a sad tale is best for winter, in a better and higher sense even than the poet meant. Few circumstances have ever excited greater horror than the series of military murders which have been perpetrated in this country within the past twelve months. The petty motives which have led to the perpetration of these horrible deeds, the cool deliberation and determina-
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