New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-27
TIE LIFE AND TINES or ALEXANDER HAMILTON
By SAmVkLLL NJ sMUcKER, limo, PIP 41o. Phsdepa
J. w. Bradley.

ton performed In vi MS own Pch,
and in the memoirs of the ustrious statesman by his
| son. John c. II smlton, and by DR.. Renwick. The
author writes in the spirit of enthusiastic admiration
for bis subject although without any attempt to con.
cea the defects in his principles or conduct which
show him to have been not free from the faites of
humanity. In his opinion, Hamilton was superior to
most men Of whom history preserves the record, in
the loftness of his virtues the purity and dsinterested-
ness Of his motives and the extent aud permanence
of his usefulness. The volume present compact and
luminous narrative of the acs, by which this view
is sustained illustrating them with warmth, but gene
rally without partisan zeal.
JAurFRY THE KNIGHT AND TUE FAIR 1Il BR y
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The original Of this work is PROVERBS romance OF
She twelfth century. 1t was begun by troubadour
who heard the tale related at the Court Of the King of
Arsgon, and finished by poet whose modesty caused
him to conceal bis own name and that Of his colleague.
The incidents of which is composed of the time
of King Arthur, illustrating the of the feucal
society OF that age. The work is curious specimen
of early French literature, and derives additional
interest from the i4t of it's being supposed have sug-
eested to Cervautes several Of the episodes in Don
Ouixote Such at least are the claims which are made
for by the professed translator but with the example
of Macpherson before our eyes, we are not disposed TO
be too creduous as to the hietoy Of such wonderful
old poems.
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