Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-29

THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFER-
son, Compiled from Family Letters and Remi-
niscences by his Great Granddaughter, Sarah
n. Randolph. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Mr.. Jefferson never was favorite in New En-
gland. He has been respected for his patriotic
use of his great talents and his aid in securing
liberty and independence for his country; but
neither his politics nor his personal tastes were
popular here. This book makes but brief men:
ton of his public acts, but gives abundant and
minute information of his domestic and social
life, drawn from his extensive correspondence
and family traditions. We learn from it that
Mr.. Jefferson was unusually well informed in
literature and science for that day, undoubtedly
excelling in this respect any of his Virginia con-
temporaries, and quite equalling any American
of his time; that, Notwithstanding his reputa-
ton for extreme social and political radicalism,
he possessed and priced the rather aristocratc
accomplishments and tastes of the Virginia
planters; that he was lavish in his hospitality,
upon which the many visitors from distant
parts Of his own and from other countries, drawn
by his celebrity, were a heavy tax, which, with
the want of his personal attention, concentrated
inally large estate; that he was solicitous and
afectionate father, experimenting his daugh-
tiers education carefully and wisely, and that
he was neither an atheist nor a skeptic, but a
reverent believer in the truths of Christianity.
The book is written in clear and simple style,
and is a valuable as well as attractive addition
to American biography. 1t is for sale here by l..
H Bigelow
"THE LIFE THAT Now Is" is the title of a
volume Of sixteen sermons, by Robert Collyer,
which has been published in Boston by Horace
B. Fuller. is sufficient 10 say these sermons
are worthy of Mr.. Collyer's reputation. The
best way 10 know what he is as preacher, is 10
hear him. The ext best thing is to read his
discourses. The eminenee he has attained is due
entirely to bis own natural capacity and quail
ties. He was born in Keighly, Yorkshire. Emo
in 1928. His father, blacksmith, died when
he was quite young, leaving his wife and FIVE
young children entirely destitute. Robert had
very little schooling; he is self educated Al
fourteen, he was apprentced to a blacksmith
and he worked at this trade in Yorkshire until
1850, when he came to this country; but he be
came a Methodist and a Methodist lOca
preacher, in 1s47 He settled in Pennsylvania
and here his thinking, and his communicates
with Lucretia Mott led him to reject the Metho
dist theology, or part of it; and Acquaintance
with Rev. DR.. Furness, of Philadelphia, brough
him into association with Unitarans. In 1859
be went 70 Chicago, where his very great abilit,
as a preacher soon made him eminent One O
his admiring parishioners has purchased th
anvil at which be worked in Yorkshire, VIII
preserves it as relic. This preachers sermon
are worth reading. For sale at Sanford's.
Four YEARS AT YALE, by Graduate Of '6E
New Haven: Charles G. Chatfeld. The autho
of this book undertakes what we believe wa
never before attempted-to give a minute an
exhaustive description Of student life at va
college from the entrance examination to grad
alton. The instructors and studies, the dorm
tories, lecture rooms, chapel and other building