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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.
A charming book. --New Orleans Times.
It is a series of delightful home pictures, which present the hero as he
was