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Thomas Jefferson," in two large volumes, which received high com- 

 mendation in the "Edinburgh Review" from Lord Brougham, as '^ a 

 very valuable addition to the stock of our political and historical 

 knowledge." In it, Professor Tucker does not always accord with 

 the illustrious subject of his biography. The work, indeed, manifests 

 a laudable desire to do justice, and to decide impartially on contested 

 topics ; and hence, perhaps, it failed to give satisfaction to the ardent 

 supporters, as well as to the bitter opponents of Mr. Jefferson. 



In December, 1837, he delivered before the Charlottesville Lyceum, 

 "A Public Discourse on the Literature of the United States," which 

 was published in the Southern Literary Messenger for February, 

 1838 ; and in which he enumerates many of the contributions made 

 in this country to the domains of science and literature, concluding 

 with glowing auguries of their future " progressive brightness." 



In 1839 appeared a small volume, entitled " Theory of Money and 

 Banks," the copyright of which Professor Tucker was unable to 

 dispose of in Philadelphia or New York, and which was published in 

 Boston, and soon passed to a second edition. His "Progress of the 

 United States in Population and Wealth in Fifty Years, as exhibited 

 by the Decennial Census from 1790 to 1840," was a valuable contribu- 

 tion to statistics and political economy. It was a thorough analysis 

 of the census for the period mentioned, and led its author to impor- 

 tant inferences on the subjects of the probabilities of life, the pro- 

 portion between the sexes, emigration, the diversities between the 

 two races which compose our population, the progress of slavery, and 

 of productive industry, &c. To this he added an appendix in 1855, 

 when eighty years of age, containing an abstract of the census of 

 1850, in the preface to which he expresses the patriotic hope "that 

 these authentic exhibitions of our growth and improvement, so grati- 

 fying to the pride and love of country, will lead our citizens to 

 greater party forbearance, and give them new incentives to cherish 

 that Union to which, under heaven, they owe the blessings they 

 enjoy." Impelled by the same sentiments, he gave " A Public Dis- 

 course on the Dangers most Threatening to the United States ;" 

 (Washington, 1843.) 



Professor Tucker's last production at the University of Virginia, 

 was a " Memoir of the Life and Character of Dr. John P. Emmet," 

 the accomplished Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica in the 

 University, who died in 1842. 



During the whole of this period of his life, he had been a prolific 

 contributor to the public journals, and to the more imposing periodi- 



