This book is written especially for the American public by M. Francois Le Goff, of Paris, a French publicist of the Conservative-Republican school, who knew Thiers personally and who is thoroughly conversant with the history and politics of France.  Besides the biographical narrative, which is enlivened by many fresh anecdotes, the writer attempts to present such a connected view of French political history for the last fifty years, as will throw light upon the present crisis in France, so incomprehensible to most Americans.  The work will also be interesting as an able defense of the unity of Thiers’ political life, a position rarely assumed by even the most ardent friends of the great statesman.  It is illustrated by a fac-simile of his handwriting and autograph, a view of his home, etc.

=BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES.= First Series. =Contemporary Statesmen of Europe.= Edited by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

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Vol.  I. English Statesmen.  By T.W.  Higginson. " II.  English Radical Leaders.  By R.J.  Hinton. " III.  French Leaders.  By Edward King. " IV.  German Political Leaders.  By Herbert Tuttle.

These volumes are planned to meet the desire which exists for accurate and graphic information in regard to the leaders of political action in other countries.  They will give portraitures of the men and analysis of their lives and work, that will be vivid and picturesque, as well as accurate and faithful, and that will combine the authority of careful historic narration with the interest attaching to anecdote and personal delineation.

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Transcriber’s Note: 

Page 232—­Changed spelling of conquerer to conqueror.