The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-31
No 247.
wEBsfER,s woRKs.-s,1th Edition.

tic PGpers of DANIEL WEBSTER; tcith q
ERETT. In vols. 8vo. cloth. Price $sl2.
TT speaks favorably, we think, for the intelli.
4 gence and sound national feeling of the people
OF this country, that Messrs. Little, Brown & Co.
have been called upon to issue the siz edition of Mr..
justice of the opinion expressed by distinguished
clergyman of Philadelphia, in discourse on the
character of Mr. Webster, that stthe best thing we
can do for training our young men is to place in
their hands the works of this great statesman;n
and also of his remark upon the influence of that
recommendation, 81 feel that have rendered every
family q useful service, which may have been in
duced, through my recommendation, to give it
place among their household books From a
general conviction of the truth here expressed in
addition to the interest which every intelligent
reader who once enters upon the perusal of Mr..
Webster's speeches writings, either from the
and force of the views expressed from the charm
of the style and manner of discussion, we have no
doubt that these works will attain a much wider
circulation and far more general perusal, than
those OF any other American author. The excel
lent manner in which the work is published, and
the reasonableness of the price, recommends it to
general circulation
We learn that an idea has been entertained, to
some extent, that the edition above referred to,
edited by Mr.. Everett, may be hereafter superseded
by another and more complete edition. This is
mistake. This edition was compiled and edited
with great care during the lifetime of Mr.. Web
ster, with all the assistance which he could afford
for rendering it complete, and no new edition can
supersede it. Should there be further publica
ton of correspondence miscellanies, it will be
in the form Of addition which will in no degree
impair the value of the present edition, but would
tend to increase its interest.
In confirmation of this fact we are authorized to
publish the following letter from Mr.. Fletcher
Webster, one of the executors of the late Mr.
Webster:
sBosToN, January 10, 1853.
"MEssRs. LITTLE, Brown Co.-Gentlemen /
have been informed that frequent inquiries
made Of you as to the completeness of your edition
"The present volumes, edited by MIR. Everett
and published by you, contain every thing, up to
March, 1852, which was intended to be included
in bis entire published works.
''lti is probable that one two volumes of corre-
spondence may hereafter be collected and pub
lished in the same style with your six volumes.
This cannot be considered as defnitively decided
upon; but it is certain that no publication will be
made which will render your edition incomplete,
or in any way diminish its value.
"Yours, very respectfully, -
'sWe have already expressed, very decidedly
the opinion that the Boston Webster Memorial,
also published by Messrs. Little, Brown Co., is
the most satisfactory and interesting of all the
books which his death has called from the press.
The subjects presented well selected and treated
with excellent taste and feeling, and it contains
the most valuable of the tributes to the memory of
the deceased statesman. -Boston Daily Advertiser.
sThese volumes collection of imperishable
models in constitutional law, Jurisprudence, in
irrational law, diplomacy, finance, legislation,
and literature-a collection not to be matched by
this, and hardly by any other country, in capital
and multiform excellence. There is not page in
these books which may not give the world assur-
ance of transcendent intellect; not page which
will not make posterty prouder of the land of their
fathers. These productions will be perpetuated as
long as the English language endures:"
[Ne,p York Courier and Enquirer.
"Dlstlngulshed men have monuments erected
for them by their grateful countrymen, and some
times by the people of another nation, or by re-
mote posterity. Daniel Webster has taken care to
build his own, and in his lifetime. The six ample
Little & Brown. of Boston, will constitute more
precious and durable memorial of his existence
and his greatness, than the granite column, the
marble or brazen bust.
1--WE shall not attempt to mention, nor even hint
at the deservings of Mr. Webster, still less to
compare him with other men. There is shorter
course, which is to invite the community to weigh
and value them for themselves. There are his
works, such of them as have been collected. There
they stand. They shall speak for him. They
want only to have readers to create ADMIRERS
NetDark Daily Advertiser.
ssIn company with the writings of Washington
and Franklin, they constitute most essential
part of the history of our Republic. No lapse of
time can destroy their value 80 long the world
| shall feel an interest in knowing how the great
ness of the American nation was built up and pre-
served, and how the genius and spirit of the peo
pie in the nineteenth century were embodied and
personifed in one eminent individual-emphati-
cally the AMERICAS STATEsMAN.'
boston Courier.
sBy the side of the excellent edition of the works
of Edmund Burke, issued some years since by the
same publishers, every student of politics may
we'll place this edition of the works of Daniel Web
LITTLE, BROWN & co.,
l12 Washington street, Boston.