The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-08-23
OPINIoNs on YHR PRRes.

uFlNlONs UE XH8 RR108.
No other Life Of Jefferson ~, pslasaAss
comparison to this In thcroushns 80 fuIlaess ~ In
eident and considerations fidelity.
This hiogn ply has evidently been labor Of love.
years Of patient, assdaous toll Il has coat
nave 0eep gwen wish unsrudsipg sniinng enths
Atisns.h the public have Life Of Thou.. JEFF
ferson that 10 not only fascinating, and therefore
sure 70 be popular. but one that win stand the e.
fuiness. tits seen that tho ground work Of tho
whole - authentic contemporary material, and Of
the highest order. To gather Il has been the work
Ok years. We would not compare this volume with
iaat ,nimit.ble and incompar.bls biography Of
Boswell, and yet 90 faithful 10 the portraiture that
Jefferson is made to draw Of bimseif, that his ma
ture, MS very soul, 10 deiniatsd with distin
ness not unlike that in which johnson stands ont
in the pages Of Boswcll.-[ Boston Poet
lmbued with that enthusiastic adm in tion ~ his
saejedt, without which biographer 10 rarely sue
eessful Mr. Randall nevertheless does no, sesk TO
hide whatever faults hs may nnd, either from him
seii or from the reader. He paints the picture ~
Cromwell insistsd bis should b painted, "vsrts
and all" The picsars gains ~ Mis- in iifs- iiks
eoioring without losing any Of IL majestic pro-
PORTIONS Albany Eve. Jour.
No one Who runs hbwsvsr casually, ever thi.
work viii fail 10 b. satisfied that Nr. Rsadall has
added very largely 10 The WORLDS sGDsk Of infor-
nation about Jsdcssoh, that Ae has haa sccses 10
sources hitherto nexplored. and that be las dous
more than wss ever done BY any one before him to
illustrate the psrsonalty of that srsa, ststesan.
IN. I. Eve. Post. = : -
We have read with delight Mr.. Randsll's snvsi-
vating detA Of Mr.. Jefe rson's psssonal h;etsrv
which hs has ssdalously gsthsvsd, and sdnirsbiy
grouped together, from great variety or authsptic
sosrces, hitherto uncxPlorcd. Out al the tempting
richness OF his nsteriAls the able and clear sht,d
author has constructed book, At once most an
tertaining and insructive--one that should be
studied BY every patriot Of the land q. fRiehmond
There can BE- only one opinion ~ 10 the ability.
general impartislity aud industry which Mr.. Han
aam mas brought into combination in the compost
Wv. Wv. ~ sss Daography. He has
delphia Press.
wili take placc among the choicest clssrics Of
american Literature and be consulted BY every fu-
!srS historian Of this country Il Eve
Bulhtin.
We like 1t because II neither soncesls. palliates
eaaggerates, nor distorts but approaches in every
hs'Ahce, and IN every Aftcular, the career of the
NOBLE character whose opinions have done 20 much
shape the domestic and foreign policy Of the ma
non ne 30 greatly tocsil into xisence
- N. 0.True Delta.
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