The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-18

BY JAMES PARTON,
Author of Life of Aaron Burr" etc, etc.
Three Volumes, 636 TO 734 pages each,
with Steel Portraits.
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MIR. Parton has been several years engaged in the
preparation of this work, and has bestowed upon it
the most eareful research and investigation. The
first volume of the Subscribers' Edition was issued
year since the second was published last spring,
and the third and last is now completed. OF the
first and second volumes, the press have spoken in
the warmest commendation.
The life of Andrew jackson was indeed an event
full one, and the events that were crowded into his
career, pioneer, general, and a statesman, are
among the most important in the history Of our
country. .''-TditnEoH Gazette. almost all that
Iata - hin, 10 nacriiar and infar-
esting. g."-AngeRid TIMES.
Those who have been most familiar with the
of Jackson will be surprised at the mass Of
new matter the author has collected. Boston
Journal. 1t exhausts the subject "-Ne1o York
Day Book.
''It is an honest book throughout - Nashville
UioH s'It is equally free from the spirit of detrac
tion, on the one hand, and of unmixed gorificaton
on the other Falings and virtues are alike faith
fully delineated Western Christian Adrocats
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ON permanent iUteTBst.
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which the conventional and common. place biogra-
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