Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-28
BALDWIN,s WORKS.

DAHTY LEADERs.-skstche OF JEFF
ferson, Hamilton, Randolph, jackson. and
Clay by Jo g. Baldwin (now Of San Francisco, Cali
OPINIONS OF EMINENT MEN.
From Hon. Robert 1ooDa5s, United States Senator.
Party Leaders is work of rare merit The author
evinces high artistic skill, combined with the most
thorough and profound knowledge OF his characters
and Of the great events which they created direct
ed The book is full Of philosophical just and glow
ing thought clothed in the most attractive and bril-
liant style. In this important field of literature,
sincerly believe Mr.. Baldwin has no American com
petitor.
From Hon. John p. Kennedy.
work Of SURPRISING merit
From the Editor Of the Western Democratic
Review.
Party Leaders is worth more to politicians of all
parties than any other book near is size ever printed
in the United States. consider Mr.. Baldwin by far
the abest sketcker in the Union.
From ez- President Fillmore
have read Party Leaders with great satisfaction
and delight and return you thousand thanks for the
pleasure and instruction / have derived from the
perusal
From Hon. Geo. w. Summers, ofVa
Party Leaders IL charming, captivating book Of
its kind and cannot fail TO place the author in the
very front rank of American writer's. As writer,
Mr.. Baldwin has all the qualities to attract present
popularity and lasting fame He Is faithful 70 truth,
yet he does not deem necessary to present IL
dry, withered, and branchless thing, but he rives
oil the senses at once by offering TO us flowers foliage
| and fruit in delightful combination.
From the Hon. James M. Mason, United States
Senator.
| had heard Party Leaders highly commended by
those competent to judge, but confess was not pre-
pared for the intellectual and literary feast its rich
| pages have yielded.
After living memory Of Jefferson, Ham.
ton, Randolph, Jackson and Clay, shall have ceased
on earth posterty may safely look into this memorial
for the true characters intellectual moral and pol
| cal, of those it portrays
As literary work, shall be much disappointed II
does not place its author at once in the front rank
of American literaturej and even in Old England,
take its place next to, if not by the side Of the
kindred works Of Mcintosh and Macauly.
The North American, the Southern Quarterly, the
Quarterly Review, the Southern Literary Messenger,
Hunts Merchants Magazine, the New Church Re-
pository, the Western Literary Gazette, and large
numbers of leading newspapers Of all political par.
strong testimony to the ability, eoquence and i'm
artiality Of these sketches.
The Nep York Literary Gazette s4s:
"This is a remarkable book, aud is, we think, des-
tined to take the first rank among works on American
Political History. We do not hesitate to place II
in the rank with the Sketches of Statesmen, by
Lord Brougham the Philosophclvews Of American
Democracy, by DeTocquevile and the notices ofpub-
we should do injustice to the author of Party Leaders
if we did not give him the superiority in point of
STYLE and candor, and freedom, from prejudice even
the popular Sketches of Benton"
Also the Flush Times, of Alabama, and Mis-
sissippi, tenth edition.
From the North american RevieU.
Flush Times contains series of pictures, for
the most part entirely comic, yet hardly oyerdrawn
Of Life and Manners in the Southwest. ,Ofelo-
quent and life-ike Characterization we can hardly
point to richer specimen than Mr.. Baldwns sketch
Of Hon. s. s. Prentss, that Of equal merit Of Hon.
trancis Strother"-[ Hon. Francis 3. Lyon, of Ala.
From the Western Democratic Rspiep.
Mr.. Baldwin has no equal in this department Of
writing His book contains more humor and good
combined than any o,her of the day The sketch
Of Prentiss, it will be conceded, evinces master
hand
From the Southern Quarterly RepieD.
clever, sprightly. and amusing book.
From the Southern Literary Messengsr.
We are but giving expression to widely-enter-
tanned opinion, when we say they the very best
things Of the kind that the age has produced. The
droery Of the writer is irresistible. In the sketch
Of Prentiss there is power Of mental analysis, and
regal pomp of language, that only the acknowledged
masters in the intellectual world possess.
For sale by booksellers throughout the United
States Price of Party Leaders, 81, of Flush Times,
81 rs. ID. APPLETON d co.
feb 23-ltd<w Publishers, New York.