GREAT AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY I 



WEBSTER 



AND 



HIS MASTER-PIECES 



fis fife aiilr 6xmi ^prcljts 



BY B. F. TEFFT, r>. D., LI.. D. 



Steel Portrait, Two Volumes, 1032 pp. l?wio. I -ki^jc, $2 oOt 



THE LIFE EMBRACED 



?. The Webster Family. ; 6. Webstei the Leglditor. 



2. Webster the Boy and Youth. 7. Webster the Cit'z.en. 



3. Weboter the Student. 8. Wehster the Rrrator. 

 4 Webster the Lawyer. 9. T* ebcter the Orator. 



5. Webster in his Domestic Eelations. ' 10. Webster the li'jtecutive Officer. 



THE SPEECHES EMBRACE 



L Argument in the Dartmouth College 



Case. 

 2. Plymouth Oration — ^First Settlement of 



' New England. 

 8. Speech on the Greek Eevolution. 



4. Bunker Hill Monument Oration. 



5. Funeral Oration — Adams and Jefferson. 



6. Lecture before Mechanic's Institution, 



Boston. 



7. The Character of Washington. 



8. Speech at Niblo"s Garden, New York. 



9. Letter on Impressment. 



10. Eeply to Hayue on Foot's Eesolution. 



11, Constitution not a Compact— Eeply to 



Calhoun, 

 li;. Constitution and the Union — 7th of 

 Mnrch Speech. 



We receive these volumes with especial satisfaction. Dr. Tefft's book, we doubt not, 

 will be a popular one. It has that brilliancy of touch and that vivacity of style which 

 are always popular with the great body of readers.- -5o.s-to?i Traveler. 



Such a life of the great statesman was needed. There is no other as cheap yet elegant 

 form in which Webster's great efforts are to be found. They will sell well, we doubt not 

 The more of them there are distributed, the better it is *or our intelligence, our political 

 virtue and the public weal. — M. Y. Times. 



Dr. Tefft has displayed much industry, versatility and discrimination in his biography, 

 and good taste in the selection of Mr. Webster's efforts, and these volumes cannot but 

 meet with a favorable reception from the public. — Boston Atlas. 



There is no doubt but the book will be very generally sought and read by an appre- 

 ciating public. It must be regarded as a valuable addition to the standard literary works 

 of the times. The author is exceedingly happy in his use of language. Tliere is nothing 

 laborious, dull or dillicult in the perusal; but on the contrary, it possesses an affahUi, 

 concenial spirit which is entirely winning. We have been peculiarly interested with 

 the description of Mr. Webster's character contained in the last chapter of the biography 

 The author enters into the subject with l-is whole soul, delineating faithfully tho.se traits 

 peculiar to the man, expanding upon those qualities of mind which constituted his great- 

 ness. The work is handsomely got up, and is ht to adorn any library.— ^w/u/o I^ep. 



We doubt whether a better biogrxphy will ever meet the eyes of the student, or en • 

 rich the library of the man of letters. The style -S polished, clear, and interesting in « 

 bigh degree. — Boston Eve. Gazette. 



The best life of Webster that has ever appeared— .2«#;< to Democracy. 



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