_With Illustrations._
Crown 8vo, Illuminated Cloth, Beveled Edges, $2 50.
This volume brings the life of Jefferson in a brief space within the
reach of all. While not writing of him as of the great man or statesman,
Miss Randolph has given sufficient outline of the contemporary public
events, especially of those in which Jefferson was engaged, to make the
history of his times sufficiently clear. Her object, however, she says,
has been to give a faithful picture of Jefferson as he was in private
life, and for this she was particularly well fitted. Her biography is so
artless, so frank, and so uncolored, differing so completely from the
lives of public men as generally written. * * * This extremely
interesting volume. --_Richmond Whig._
One of the most charming and entertaining of books, and its pages will
be a source of continual surprise and pleasure to those who, while
admiring the statesman, have had their admiration tempered by the belief
that he was a demagogue, a libertine, a gamester, and a scoffer at
religion. The age in which Jefferson lived was one in which political
rancors and animosities existed with no less bitterness than in our
later day, and in which, moreover, mutual abuse and malignant
recrimination were indulged in with equal fury and recklessness. Charges
were made against Jefferson, by his political opponents, that clung to
his good name and sullied it, making it almost a by-word of shame, and
its owner a man whose example was to be shunned. The prejudices and
calumnies then born have existed down to the present day; but the mists
of evil report that have hemmed his life and his memory about are now
clearing away, and this sunny book will dispel the last shadow they have
cast, and will display the maligned victim of party hate in his true
character--as a fond, an amiable, and a simple-hearted father; a firm
friend; a truly moral and God-fearing citizen, and one of those few
great men who have had the rare fortune to be likewise good men.
--_Boston Saturday Evening Gazette._
The author of this charming book has had access to the best possible
sources of information concerning the private character of
Mr. Jefferson, embracing both the written testimony of his
correspondence and the oral testimony of family tradition. From these
materials, guided by a profound reverence for the subject, the writer
has constructed a most interesting personal biography. * * * A most
agreeable addition to American literature, and will revive the memory of
a patriot who merits the respect and gratitude of his countrymen.
--_Philadelphia Age._
This handsome volume is a valuable acquisition to American history. It
brings to the public observation many most interesting incidents in the
life of the third President; and the times and men of the republic's
beginnings are here portrayed in a glowing and genial light. The author,
in referring to the death-scenes of Jefferson, reports sentiments from
his lips which contradict the current opinion that the writer of the
Declaration of Independence was an infidel. We are glad to make this
record in behalf of truth. Young people would find this book both
entertaining and instructive. Its style is fresh and compact. Its pages
are full of tender memories. The great man whose career is so charmingly
pictured belongs to us all. --_Methodist Recorder._
There is no more said of public matters in it than is absolutely
necessary to make it clear and intelligible; but we have Jefferson, the
man and the citizen, the husband, the father, the agriculturist, and the
neighbor--the man, in short, as he lived in the eyes of his relatives,
his closest friends, and his most intimate associates. He is the
Virginian gentleman at the various stages of his marvelous career, and
comes home to us as a being of flesh and blood, and so his story gives a
series of lively pictures of a manner of existence that has passed away,
or that is so passing, for they are more conservative at the South,
socially speaking, than are we at the North, though they live so much
nearer the sun than we ever can live. * * * We can commend this book to
every one who would know the main facts of Mr. Jefferson's public
career, and those of his private life. It is the best work respecting
him that has been published, and it is not so large as to repel even
indolent or careless readers. It is, too, an ornamental volume, being
not only beautifully printed and bound, but well illustrated. * * *
Every American should own the volume. --_Boston Traveller._
A charmingly compiled and written book, and it has to do with one of the
very greatest men of our national history. There is scarcely one on the
roll of our public men who was possessed of more progressive
individuality, or whose character will better repay study, than Thomas
Jefferson, and this biography is a great boon. --_N. Y. Evening Mail._
Both deeply interesting and valuable. The author has displayed great
tact and taste in the selection of her materials and its arrangement.
--_Richmond Dispatch._