“The Life of Gen. Z. Taylor.”—H. Montgomery, Esq., editor of the Auburn Daily Advertiser, has found leisure, amid the multitude of his engagements, to get up the most respectable looking and carefully prepared biography of the old General we have yet seen. It makes a neat volume, and is printed on excellent paper and new type, and bound in the very best style. It cannot fail to find a tremendous sale; a result due alike to the book itself, and the enterprise of its busy publishers.—Albany Evening Journal.

“Life of General Zachary Taylor, by H. Montgomery,” is the latest and most complete of the numerous volumes purporting to be ‘Lives’ of the General. The author of this work—likewise editor of the Auburn Journal—is already known as a forcible and pleasing writer, handling his subject with a masterly hand; these characteristics are fully developed in the book before us. The stirring incidents of General Taylor’s life, and the recent battles on Mexican soil are well portrayed—the very fair and impartial style of narration being a rare quality in depicting battle scenes. The book will repay an attentive perusal.—N. Y. Tribune.

The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor. By H. Montgomery.—Another and still another “illustrated” Life of the great American, (would that he had as many lives as the publishers give him,) the American whom Carlyle would recognise as “a hero” worthy of his pen’s most eloquent recognition; THE MAN OF DUTY in an age of Self. An American in everything; in valor, in strong muscular sense; in simplicity and directness and cordiality of feeling; an American in every thing, save in devotion to our new political God of Expediency.

The volume before us is put forth in Auburn, by the editor of the Auburn Daily Advertiser, whose vigorous, fluent style, and skill in compressing his materials, must make his elegant volume very generally acceptable. Many of the traits ascribed to General Taylor have been assimilated by some of his admirers to the leading military characteristics of Frederick the Great. But, unlike Frederick, Taylor is anything but a martinet in discipline; and, though his movements of small bodies of troops against vast odds, are characterized by the vigorous will and iron determination of Frederick, the arbitrary disposition of the Prussian despot is wholly alien to his tolerant and candid nature. Taylor’s affectionate and almost parental relation to his soldiers, perhaps, alone first suggested the parallel, as we find it hinted in the following stanza of some verses upon one of his battles, quoted by Mr. Montgomery:

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