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The first volume of this work, which is devoted to the autobiography of Mr. Weed, is now published, and the hearty reception accorded to it throughout the country is in some measure indicated by the following PRESS NOTICES. The reader rises from this most interesting biography with an impression of the growing power of the man whose life is told in it. What was it, we ask, in Mr. Weed's disposition and education which enabled him to pass the test of an active politician's career, and issue unimpaired in conscience and integrity? If a single word can cover the answer, it would be "patriotism."-Atlantic Monthly. The book is crowded with personal recollections, which will make it of great use to political historians and biographers. The easy, personal tone of the reminiscences will render them of great interest to the general reader, who is apt to find biography, and especially autobiography, the most fascinating form of history. The franknesss of them would disarm criticism.-New York Tribune. This work has an unusual perfection of perspective. ... In this particular the work is an ideal autobiography. Its author's memory was so clear, so vivid, and so minute in its grasp of details, that he has written of events half a century old quite as if they were the events of an immediate past.... In the aspect of which we have written, the work is a history, and something more-a picture of the growth of this great State; and it is not too much to say that we know of no work in biography which is its superior in this respect, no work that gives its readers a clearer or more accurate conception of the material and intellectual history of the State for three quarters of a century.... Such a work, written with such frankness, is one of no little value considered as an essay in the history of politics.-New York Times. As we read, we seem to see a stately procession of statesmen, orators, captains, and leaders in all ranks and professions of life pass before us, as in a panorama, while on the canvas are depicted with remarkable distinctness and vividness the great and important events that, during the past threescore years have marked the progress of the Nation. The story is brimful of reminiscences of famous men and women, and enlivened by the recital of many characteristic anecdotes.—Chicago Tribune. It would be impossible to find a more fascinating, and at the same time a more important work, than the long looked for and anxiously expected Autobiography of Thurlow Weed. ... Such a man could not fail to give to the world a book in which the fascinations of fiction are combined with the graver attractions of history.-Rochester Post-Express. Thurlow Weed's Autobiography is important as a history, and delightful as a collection of reminiscences of men and things. He writes with extraordinary frankness about men, motives and measures, and all this makes intensely interesting reading-the most interesting, we verily believe, ever put together in an American political biography or autobiography.-Utica Herald. It need not be said that the work is intensely fascinating. Mr. Weed's autobiography is one that will hold from beginning to end the attention of every reader who is at all acquainted with the country's history.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A keen observer, a close student of character, holding a unique place in political affairs for many years, Mr. Weed's record of his career incidentally touches almost every public man of his time, and abounds in passages of striking interest.-Christian Union (New York). We have read the book with unconcealed interest. Everywhere in it are sprightly reminiscences. -Boston Advertiser. 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