“This work challenges attention for the really valuable light which it throws upon the character of George Washington. The picture which Mr. Ford here draws of him is careful, life-like, and impressive in the extreme. While his exhaustive researches have resulted in humanizing Washington ‘and making him a man rather than a historical figure,’ a fair and intelligent reader, we submit, will arise from the glowing chapters of Mr. Ford’s work with a larger conception of the character, endowments, and equipment of the first of Americans.... The work embodies a surprising measure of information on a most important as well as interesting subject.”--_Philadelphia Evening Bulletin._ J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. BY HON. JOHN BIGELOW. THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Written by himself. Now first edited from original manuscripts and from his printed correspondence and other writings. Revised and corrected, with additional notes. Three volumes. Crown octavo. Cloth, $4.50; half calf, $9.00; three-quarters calf, gilt top, uncut edges, $9.75. FOURTH EDITION. “Mr. Bigelow has again revised his splendid work, first published twenty-three years ago, and incorporated such discoveries as have been made in the past five years. The editor may well boast that time has indicated the artistic principle upon which the work was constructed of letting Franklin tell his own story in his own way, beginning with the autobiography and continuing the narrative with a most careful mosaic of Franklin’s voluminous letters. And it is to be credited to Mr. Bigelow that the ever-increasing fame of Franklin has made such substantial advance in our own day, since such contemporary impetus was given to the study of the man and his services by this very ‘Life of Franklin.’ It is a unique biography, or rather autobiography, and, of course, it is unapproachable in the case of its own particular subject. Until an equally tireless and copious letter-writer as Franklin can be found another such work is impossible.”--_Philadelphia Press._ J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. * * * * * Transcriber’s Notes: Missing periods and quotation marks have been supplied where obviously required. All other original errors and inconsistencies have been retained, except as follows: Page 68: changed attemts to attempts (that further attempts at flight) Page 145: changed then to them (and tumbling them both down) Page 248: changed gradutes to graduates (among the graduates of the) Page 282: changed bated to baited (lines and baited hooks at) Ads page 4: changed bioggraphy to biography (a unique biography, or rather) Ads page 4: changed tireles to tireless (an equally tireless and copious) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Pike & Cutlass, by George Gibbs