A most valuable volume, including a history of the struggle over
the ratification, the debates in the convention, now for the first
time collected, sketches of the Pennsylvania members of the Federal
Convention, and of the Pennsylvania Convention, and the letters of
Centinel.
_Madison_ (_James_). _See Nos. 31-66._
The / Papers / of / James Madison, / purchased by order of Congress; /
being / his Correspondence and Reports of Debates during / the Congress
of the Confederation / and / his Reports of Debates / in the / Federal
Convention; / now published from the original manuscripts, depos-/
ited in the Department of State, by direction of / the joint library
committee of Congress, / under the superintendence / of / Henry D.
Gilpin. / Volume I. / Washington: / Lantree & O’Sullivan. / 1840.
3 vols. 8vo. pp. (2) lx, 580, xxii, (2), xxii, (2), (581)-1242, (2),
xiv, (2), (1243)-1624, ccvlvi, 16 ll. 93
Also issues with change of date in New York and Mobile and Boston.
The whole of these three volumes were also embodied in the fifth
volume of _Elliot_ (No. 31), but this edition is much preferable from
the larger type.
Reviewed in _The Democratic Review_, v, 243; vi, 140, 337: in _The
American Church Review_ xv, 541, and by C. F. Adams in _The North
American Review_, liii, 41.
_Marcus. See Nos. 24 and 81._
_Martin_ (_Luther_).
The / Genuine Information, / delivered to the / Legislature of the
State of / Maryland, / Relative to the Proceedings / of the / General
Convention, / Lately held at Philadelphia; / By / Luther Martin,
Esquire, / Attorney-General of Maryland, / and / One of the Delegates
in the said Convention. / Together with / A Letter to the Hon. Thomas
C. Deye / Speaker of the House of Delegates, / An Address to the
Citizens of the United / States, / And some Remarks relative to a
Standing / Army, and a Bill of Rights. / ... / Philadelphia; / Printed
by Eleazer Oswald, at the Coffee-House. / M,DCC,LXXXVIII.