“Mr. Fisher has done a service to American literature and history which is not to be measured alone by the facts supplied in his book. There is a sentimental value to his study, which resides in its effect upon the public mind in making us realize the true proportions of one of our few great men. Washington and Franklin are the true figures in our early history to which the verdict of the world has given lasting fame. Paul Leicester Ford has changed Washington from a myth into a human being. Mr. Fisher has done the same for Franklin. Of the two heroes Washington was the less understood. But the popular conception of Franklin in its way was also far from the truth. The result of Mr. Fisher’s analysis of Franklin will be to make him more distinctly a great American than ever he was to us before. Mr. Fisher evidently has made a careful study of Franklin; first, as he reveals himself in his own writings and in his life; and, secondly, as his biographers and those who were contemporary with him have estimated him. He destroys some popular delusions concerning him, and, on the other hand, brings out more clearly and forcibly than heretofore the greatness of certain qualities of his character which have been rather lost sight of or neglected. Mr. Fisher has done his work with the painstaking care and skill that have made his various other books along historical lines of recognized merit. He writes clearly, frankly, and without prejudice.”--_Philadelphia Evening Bulletin._ J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. The True George Washington BY PAUL LEICESTER FORD, Author of “The Honorable Peter Stirling,” etc. With twenty-four full-page illustrations. Crown 8vo. Cloth, deckle edges, $2.00; three-quarters levant, $5.00. “This book is a monument of industry.”--_New York Nation._ “This is a wonderfully interesting book.”--_Buffalo Commercial._ “Mr. Ford’s book is rich in new matter which commends itself as interesting as well as valuable.”--_Washington Times._ “Mr. Ford has delved with diligence and with rich reward into contemporary records, correspondence, and traditions, and gives an entertaining account of colonial times and of the personal traits of the Father of His Country.”--_Chicago Advance._ “Mr. Ford’s book is important out of all proportion to its size, and will probably be read so long as the name of Washington continues to be revered. Brushing aside the hysterical panegyrics of would-be biographers and historians as well as super-laudatory passages in works otherwise trustworthy and meritorious, Mr. Ford resolutely set out to acquire real knowledge of the man, George Washington. Few of the other heroes of history could pass unscathed through an examination so thorough and so rigid. Every attainable fact that helps to show the Father of His Country as he was in his social and family relations has been carefully considered.”--_Boston Evening Gazette._