THE KIND OF A BOOK IT IS

This book portrays a life of simple inception, self-development, independent action, brief endeavor and sublime culmination; a life along the middle course of safety, always avoiding divergence and danger; a life that singles itself from all contemporaneousness, and tells you explicitly its own wonderful accomplishments.

The life given in this book was modest; but triumphant-50 paragraphs round up and round out the greatest American life-a great world life.