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John Jay was the serenest personage of our Revolutionary period. The short clear-cut decided name is a fitting symbol for the man whom old John Adams called "a Roman." He has come down to us as "a cold austere man, with all the classic virtues, but also with much of classic remoteness from ordinary humanity." Mr. Pellew's life of his great-grandfather reveals the warm friendships and devoted home-life of this publicly imperturbable man, and yet only fortifies the conviction that John Jay was unique among the fathers of the republic in equanimity, "deliberate valor,” and absolute poise of character. Next to Washington and Hamilton, no man's services to the young nation were more important than Jay's, whether as Revolutionary leader, member of the State Constituent Convention, President of the Continental Congress, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, envoy to foreign courts, or Chief Justice of our Supreme Court. In the earlier

*THE CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS OF JOHN JAY. Edited by Henry P. Johnston. In Four Volumes. Vol. I. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.

JOHN JAY. By George Pellew. "American Statesmen" Series. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

tive state to an energetic and patriotic course, while his essentially legal mind made him conservative in theory as in conduct, whether he, as a member of the revolutionary Committee of Safety, was handling recalcitrant Tories, or in the State Convention was drafting that Constitution which has been designated by a high authority as "essentially the model of the national government under which we live." As a member of the Continental Congress, he was the one above all others to whom such largeminded statesmen as Robert Morris, Edward Rutledge, Hamilton, and Washington looked and wrote, as not only the coolest head and sincerest patriot in that body, but as the man of soundest judgment, deepest insight, and largest influence for the nation's welfare. As a negotiator of the peace with England, his inflexible and calm determination in the face of Spanish greed, French neglect, and English obstinacy, won terms which aroused wonder and admiration not only at the French court but even in England. His famous treaty of 1794 was but the codicil to the former one, and was remarkably favorable to the United States, which at that time could sue but not dictate. By his decision, as Chief Justice, in the famous case of Chisholm vs. State of Georgia, he forever introduced into practical politics the doctrine of the national sovereignty, and laid the foundation on which John Marshall built for a third of a century.

evidence for it at first hand has hitherto been All this is familiar history, yet the printed largely confined to a limited selection from Jay's papers, long since out of print, and therefore costly in proportion to its completeness. Every student of history is a debtor to Professor Johnston and his publishers for this beautiful edition of Jay's papers, to be completed in four octavo volumes uniform in style with the recent editions of Hamilton, Franklin, and Washington. One could wish that the publishers had put as substantial a backing on the Jay and the Washington as on the Hamilton, but aside from this slight defect the volumes are a luxury to the eye. This first volume of the Jay papers is brought down only to the beginning of 1781, yet one may form a fair estimate of the man from its varied contentspronunciamentos, state papers, briefs of na

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