473 pages 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 21 cm
OCLC
ocm03478020
"The papers contained in this volume were originally published in the North American review, 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."