LIBRARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY, Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1844, by In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetta A 40355 MAR 29 1900 ADVERTISEMENT. In resuming the publication of this work, it needs only be premised, that it will be continued on precisely the same plan, as that adopted in the preceding volumes, and will be confined to the lives of such individuals as have been distinguished in America; particularly in that part of America which now constitutes the United States. Ten volumes have already been published; but, for the convenience of purchasers who may not possess these volumes, a new series is now commenced, and appropriate title-pages will be furnished; as also title-pages, with which the subsequent volumes may be bound in continuation of the former, or with which any separate volume may be bound when not connected with the series |