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 passionate, ambitious, proud. In the drawing room where one of these men clanced to be there was room for no one else-such was the vivacity, the wit and the good nature shown. With wo- men the manner of these men were most gentle and courtly; and the low, alluring voice of each was music's honeyed flat tery set to words Both were under the average height, but the carriage of each man was so proud and imposing that everywhere they went men made way and women turned and stared. MT. Hen " Cabot Lodge says that so great was Hamilton's renown as a lawyer that clients nocked to him because the belief was that no judge dared to decide against him; with Burr 1t was the same Both made large sums, but spent them as fast as made.
 Tn point of classic education, Burr had the advantage. He was the grandson of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. In his strong personal magnetism and keen. many-sided intellect, Aaron Burr strong ly resembled the gifted Presbyterian di- vine who wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God His father was Rev. Aaron Burr founder and President of Princeton College. He was a graduate of Princeton, and, like Hamilton always had the ability to focus his mind on the subject in hand, wringing from 1t Its very core"
 MT. Pidgin tells us in his preface that he has spent twenty years Of his life in collecting materials for this work, which he hopes will set Burr in new light before the world. ''The men of America today" he says, "are more tol- erant, broader minded and less bigoted in their politics than they were century ago. My aim has been to present Aaron Burr as he was hundred years ago, and to ask that he be judged by the rules of order and society then existing; but by minds free from intolerant political and religious prejudices which blinded the eyes and warped the judgment of his con- temporaneous critics.
 Aaron Burr was a man who fought bravely to secure the Independence of the colonies; a man who rose to the highest position at the bar, and who was offered seat upon the bench; a man who was elected to the highest position in the gift of the American people, and who filled the second place with dignity and grace that have never been equalled; man who revenged the wrongs inflicted upon him during a period of thirty years on the fatal field of Weehawken; a man
 
 was tried for high treason by the mem- bers of the party which afterward carried out exactly the programme of conquest that he had outlined; man who bore his downfall with patience and dignity; a man whom neither political persecution, poverty, nor the perfidy of his friends could force to speak one word of re- crimination or complaint; a man who bore the loss of daughter and grandson, the deariest ties that bound him to the human race, with resignation"
 'Blennerhassett' is brave and noble effort to right wrong. It bears the stamp of honest conviction, which pos terity will honor if not make its own. Had Aaron Burr lived in our day, as Dreyfus did, he, too, might have seen his prosecutors and maligners held up to the scorn of the civilized world
 Never was a man so hunted down by envy and hate and so mercilessly en- tangled in the web of political persecu- ton as was Aaron Burr. But a great change is fast coming over the people," says one of our most distinguished men, "and time will come when he will be held as patriot soldier and statesman, true and loyal to the good.'
 Virus, honoris, janna" is the motto of the Burr coat of arms. For genera tions back the representative men and women of this great family have lived up to it's high standard He who runs may read in the faces of such as the beautiful 1heodosia and of the father she so strongly resembled and ardently loved,