Excerpt from It Has Not Been My Purpose to Present an Original Review of the Life and Work of Francis Jeffrey, but Only to Give an Outline of His Career and to Cite Some Contemporaneous Estimates of His Personality, His Character and His Merits; He Is Now Little Known: New York, March, 1910; Ott'man Joline, Who Died Last Home in New York, Aged Sixty Graduate of Princeton, A. Prac Er Until the Time of His Death, an Enthusiastic Bibliophile; He' Hor of "Meditations .of an Auto Ector," "Diversmns of a Book the Librar A successful lawyer whose name is associated with no great causes; a leader in literature whose only book was a mere collection of essays reprinted from a maga zine a renowned talker who left to posterity no legacy of memorable sayings; Francis Jeffrey owes his fame, or so much of it as survives him sixty years after his death, chiefly to his work as a writer of reviews. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.