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The Grsatest Biography Of the Age
THE LIFE OF y
ITHOMAS JEFFERsoN.l

b Hsary S. Randall, L. L. ID. Ia 1lTes Vol
ne umes, Oetaro.s
THIS work contains upwards Of 1000 pages,
Is printed on fine paper, and is Handsomely bound
ID various styles IL is illustrated by several
engravings on steel, and numerous fac SMILES ;
among the former are two fine portraits Of JEFF
ferson. The fac SMILES embrace, among Others,
/ the original dfait Of the Declaration Of Indie
pandenee, in Jeffcrson's own hand writing.
This is, in every sense, an authorized work.
Il vas undertaken under the appreciation OF his
Amily, and with an unreserved access y all the
private papers Of jefferson in their possession /;
and has received the benefit Of their recoliec-
items and opinions at every step.
The work contains the expressions Of Jefer-
son on every great public question which arose,
from his advent into public life, to his death-a
period Of about sixty years, and embracing the
whole forming period of the Revolution. 1t
contains Jefferson's heretofore unpublished fam
lily correspondence selections from his finest
polished letters, State papers, etc, etc.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
No other Life Of Jefferson ever published
probably none that ever will be published-cah
bear any comparison to this in thoroughness,
fullness Of incident, and conscientious fidelity
% This biography has evil
IDENTIFY been labor of love, and the years of pa
tient, assiduOus toll il has cost, have been given
with ungrudging, untiring enthusiasm.-N. y.
Tribune.
At length the public have Life of Thomas
Jefferson, that is not only fascinating, and there
fore sure 70 be popular, but one that will stand
the essential historic test-that of accuracy and
truthfulness. It is seen that the ground work
of the whole is authentic contemporary mate
rial, and that of the highest order. To gather
1t has been the work of years. We would not
compare this volume with that inimtable and
Incompatible biography of Boswell, and yet SO
faithful is the portraiture that Jefferson is made
70 draw of himself, that his nature, his very
soul, is delineated with distinctness not unlike
that in which Johnson stands out in the pages
of BosWelI-BOstoa TOst.
lmbued with that enthusiastic admiration of
bis subject, without which biographer is rarely
successfully Mr.. Randall, nevertheless, does not
seek to hide whatever faults he may find, either
from himself or from the reader. He paints the
picture as Cromwell insisted his should be pain
ted. "warts and all'' The picture gains by this
in life-like colOring, without losing any Of its
majestic ropOrtioRs.-ALbGny Zoe. Jour.
No one who runs his eye, however casually,
over this work will fail to be satisfied that Mr. /
Randall bas added very largely to the stock Of
the worlds information about Jefferson, that he !
has bad access to sources hitherto unexplored, /
and that he. has done more than was ever done
by any one before him to illustrate the personal
ity Of that great statesman.-N. Y. Zee. Post. .
We have read with delight Mr.. Randall's I
captivating details of Mr.. Jefferson's personal /
history, which he has sedulonsly gathered, and |
admirably grouped together, from great variety /
of authentic sources hitherto UNEMPLOYED. Out
of the tempting richness of his materials, the
able and clear sighted author has constructed a
book at once most entertaining and Instructive
one that should be studied BY every patriot of
the land Richmond Eng. .-.
There can be only one opinion as to the abil-
ity, general impartiality and industry which Mr.
Randall has brought into combination in the
composition Of this biography. He has
Worthily executed much wanted book.-PhI-
GdeLpkiG Press.
twill take place among the choicest class
les OF American literature, and be consulted by
every future historian of this eountry.-Ph ilad.
Epening Bulletin.
We ike it because it neither conccals, palli-
ates, cxaggerates, nor distorts, but approaches,
in every Instance, and in every particular. the
career Of the noble character whose opinions
have done so much to shape the domestic and
foreign policy of the nation he contributed so
greatly to call into existencc.-N. o. True
Delta.
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