OF RECENT TIMES BY JAMES PARTON AUTHOR OF LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON,” “LIFE AND TIMES OF AARON BURR, 303800 Copyright, 1867 and 1895, ELDRIDGE PARTON. All rights reserved. NOTE. The papers contained in this volume were originally published in the North American Reviero, with four exceptions. Those upon THEODOSIA Burr and John JACOB Astor first appeared in Harper's Magazine ; that upon COMMODORE VanDERBILT, in the New York Ledger; and that upon Henry WARD BEECHER AND HIS CHURCH, in the Atlantic Monthly. |