Books: South's Flower

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R. E. LEE (Vols. I & II)—Douglas Southall Freeman—Scribner ($7.50). Strange, even shocking as it may seem, no definitive life of the late great Robert Edward Lee has yet been written. When, 19 years ago, Publisher Scribner asked Author Freeman to write a biography of Lee, he expected it to be a one-volume affair, soon discovered to his surprise that "much the larger part of the source material had never been consulted." The job grew under his hand, when finished will fill four fat volumes. But Biographer Freeman turned up no startling...