Preface. Prologue. 1. Pennsylvania Pioneer (1783-1809). Wagons in the wilderness -- Mercersburg -- Dickinson College. 2. Preface to Politics (1809-1829). Country lawyer -- State Assemblyman -- Counsel ...

MR. CURTIS has undertaken in these two goodly volumes 1 to rehabilitate James Buchanan. Such a task was probably more congenial to Mr. Curtis than it would be to most American writers ; but even a ...