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executed in a manner worthy of the subject, and praise can go no higher. Theo- 

 dore SedgA\ick, junior, has given us a very interesting work in the life of Wilham 

 Li\angston, a native and long a citizen of this state, afterwards governor of New- 

 Jersey. Dr. Da\id Hosack wrote an obituary memoir of De Witt Clinton : 

 the work is rather an eulogy than a biography, but the appendix to the volume 

 contains a vast mass of materials illustrating the history of the state during the 

 career of Clinton. James Renwick has written the life of Clinton, in a popular 

 form, and it has found a place in the school district library. To Samuel L. 

 Knapp we are deeply indebted for a life of Thomas Eddy, who, as has been 

 seen, was distinguished in promoting the canal policy, and who for his disinte- 

 I'ested and efficient zeal in the cause of humanity, received from his contempo- 

 raries the name of the American Howard. He was the projector of the Society 

 tor the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the city of New- York, under 

 whose government is the House of Refuge ; an institution jusdy 'pronounced by 

 De Witt Clinton the " best penitentiary ever devised by the wit and established 

 by the benevolence of man." The fame of Robert Fulton found worthy guar- 

 dians in Cadwallader D. Golden and professor Renwick. Maryland owes great 

 obligations to Henry Wheaton, of New- York, for a memoir which does ample 

 justice to the eloquence, the patriotism, talent and professional learning of her 

 son William Pinckney. It would be supererogatory to speak of the Life of 

 Christopher Columbus, by Washington Irving. 



Among the scanty materials for ecclesiastical history which we possess, we 

 refer with pleasure to the Life of the reverend John H. Livingston, by Alexander 

 Gunn ; the Life of the reverend Samuel J. Mills, a devoted missionary of the Colo- 

 nization Society, by Gardiner Spring; and the Life of the right reverend John H. 

 Hobart, by McVickar, and also a Life of the same distinguished prelate by Ber- 

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Amonor the productions of the prolific pen of the late Robert C. Sands, is a Life of 

 that celebrated naval captain, John Paul Jones. Aaron Burr was a living mystery : 

 his Ufe has been written bv Matthew L. Dans, wth distinguished accuracy. It 



