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DELAWARE COUNTY. 391 new edition is forthcoming/ and a man a thousand miles from New Y<jrk or Boston, is aware that a new star is blazing in the literary world. It would be impossible in the limits of a volume to sum up the entire comments of the press. One editor calls this work "the most deeply interesting and widely popular book of the season another calls it a philo- sophical estimate of the French Revolution.'^ One praises the " august title/' and the portraits of the marshals/' and says, " if there is such a thing as being born for a particular pro- fession, Mr. Headley was born for a military commander." One discourses in this style : " He is an ardent admirer of Na- poleon, worshipping him with almost poetical fervor, and had he been a follower of the great soldier in the days of his glory, he would have loved him with adoration." And yet another says : If now and then a voice has been raised in another strain, it has been lost in the din of general approbation." But the popular pen of Headley could not remain listless amidst such general admiration and applause ; and " Wash- ington and his Generals," " Sacred Scenes and Characters of Life," '^Life of Cromwell," Adirondack, or Life in the Woods/' " Old Guard," Scott and Jackson," and Last war with England," appeared at intervals. He also published a volume of Miscellanies," and one of '^Sketches," to pre- vent the circulation of two books with these titles, which a printer in New York had published under his name. Nor ought we to omit to mention that Mr. Headley has now the " Life of Washington," in press. At the election of 1855, Mr. Headley was put in nomination by the American party for Secretary of State, and his universal popularity demonstrated, by an overwhelmiDg majority. He purchased a country seat some years since on the banks of the Hudson, a short distance above the Highlands, known as " Cedar Lawn," where he spends a portion of the season in his congenial occupation.