The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-01
EXTRACTS FROM NEW BOOKS.

JEFFERSON AS STUDENT AND LOVER.
From Randalps "Life of Thomas ,JeBerson'
During Mr.. Jefferson's law course of five years,
ne usually spent the summer months at home, at
Shadwell, where the rest of the family continued to
reside. The systematic industry of his college life
continued Notwithstanding the time given to Comma
NY he contrived to pass nearly twice the usual num-
Der of hours of law students in his studies He placed
clock in his bed room, and soon as he could dis
tinguish its hands in the gray of the summer morn
ing, he rose and commenced his labors In winter
he rose punctually at five His hour of retiring in
the summer, in the country, was nine-n the Win
ter, at ten At Shadwel, his studies were very lit
tie interrupted by company. He usually took a
gallop on horseback during the day. and attwiligbt
walked to the top of Monticello. An hour or two
given to the society of his family and the favorite
violin, completed the list of Interruptions and still
ieIt fourteen iteen hours for study and reading
WIN Mr.. Jefferson, the lover succeeded the
schoolboy IN the due and time honored order as
laid down by the "melancholy Jaoues" The only
record of this affair is to be found in series of
letters addressed by him to his friend John Page,
commencing immediately after he left college, and
extending at intervals, through the two succeeding
years. These are to be found at length in the Con
gress edition of his works, and also in his life by
Ir3lessor tucker. They possess some interest,
perhaps, ihreaton to their bject matter but most
as the earliest specimens of their authors
epistolary writing which have been pre-
served Though they display something of that
easy command of language-that drumming PEN
nlnlt no peculiar grace of style, or maturity of
thought. Perhaps, however, these would scarcely
De expected in the careless, off-hand effusions of
ooylsh intimacy. 1t causes smile to see the future
statesman "sighing like furnace in first love;
concealing, after the approved fashion of student
HE, the name of his mistress under awkward Latin
puns and Greek anagrams, to bury a secret which
the world, of course, was supposed to have vast
interest in discovering delightedy describing happy
dances with his "Belinda" in the Apollo THAT room
OF the Raleigh tavern where we shall soon find him
acting so different part); vowing the customary
despairing VOW, that ''if Belinda will not accept his
service, 1t shall never be offered to another" and
SO on to the end of the chapter-n the well-beaten
track of immemoria prescription. The object of
his attachment was Miss Rebecca Burwell Icalled
beiinda, as pet-name, or by way of concealment,)
whom tradition speaks of as more distinguished for
beauty than cleverness
His proposals seem to have been clogged with the
condition that he must be absent for two or three
years In foreign travel before marriage. He several
Times expresses this design, specifying England
Holland, France, Spain, Italy, Egypt, and return
through the northern British provinces in America,
as his proposed route. Why he gave this up does
not appear Whether for this, or because her pre-
1erences lay in different direction Miss BurWell
somewhat abruptly married another man, in 1854
Mr. jefferson was generally, however, rather a
avorlte with the other sex, and not without reason
Ills appearance was engaging. His face, though
angular, and far from beautiful, beamed with intel
ugence, with benevolence and with the cheerful
vivacity of happy, hopeful spirit His complexion
was ruddy and delicately fairs his reddish chestnut
nar luxuriant and sllken. His full, deep-set eyes,
the prevailing color of which was a light hazel Cor
hecks OF hazel on a groundwork of gravy, were pc
cuarly expressive, and mirrored, as the clear lake
mirrors the cloud, the emotion which was passing
through his mind
He stood six feet two and a half inches in heiebt.
and though very slim at this period, his form was
erect and slnewy, and his movements displayed elias
tlclty and vig0r. He was an expert musician, a
me dancer, dashing rider, and there was no man.
in tpl, b. I
His manners were unusually graceful but simple and
cordial Ills conversation already possessed no in
considerable share of that charm which, in after
years, was so much extolled by friends, and to
which enemies attributed so seductive an influence
IN moulding the young and the wavering to his po-
ntical views. There was a frankness, earnestness,
ana cordiality in its tone-a deep sympathy with
humanity confidence in man, and a sanpuine
hopeiuness IN his destiny, which irresistiby won
upon the feelings not only of the ordinary hearer
put OF those grave men whose commerce with the
world had led them to form less glowing estimates of
lt-of such men as the scholar-ke Small, the saga
clous Wythe the courtly and gifted Fauquier.
Mr.. Jehersons temper gentle, kindly, and
iorglvng If it naturally had anything of that
warmth which is the usual concomitant of affections
ana sympathes so ardent and it no doubt had, it
1aa oeen subIugated by habitual control. Yet,
der It's even pacidity there not wanting those
indications OF calm self-reliance and courage which
all nstnctivey recognize and respect There is not
an instance on record of his having been engaged in
d PEI sonar rencohIre, or ms having suffered per-
sonal indignity. Possessing the accomplishments,
ne avoided the vices of the young Virginia gentry
OF the day. and class of habits, which, if not vices
themselves were too often made the preludes to
tnem. lie never gambled. To avoid mportun-
ties to games which were generally accompanied
with betting, he never learned to. distinguish one
card from another; he was moderate in the enjoy
ments of the table; to strong drinks he had an aver
sion which rarely yielded to any circumstances: his
mouth was unpolluted by oaths or tobacco Though
he speaks of enjoying ''the victory of a favorite
horse and the death of the fox, he never put
out one horse in training to run-never ran but a
single race, and ne very rarely joined in the pleas
ant excitement-he knew it to be too pleasant for
the aspiring student-of the chase With such
qualities of mind and character. with the favor of
powerful friends and relatives and even of vice-roy
atty to urge him onward, Mr.. Jefferson was not a
young man to be lightly regarded by the young or
old of either SEX D..