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executed in a manner worthy of the subject, and praise can go no higher. Theo¬ 
dore Sedgwick, junior, has given us a very interesting work in the life of William 
Livingston, a native and long a citizen of this state, afterwards governor of New- 
Jersey. Dr. David 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¬ 
rested 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 
for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the city of New-York, under 
whose government is the House of Refuge; an institution justly 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. Colden 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¬ 
rien. 
Among 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 life has been written by Matthew L. Davis, with distinguished accuracy. It 
