In writing the stories of the lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton, constant, care has been given to accuracy, to harmony and relationship of details with the absorbing themes of public interest with which the people associate them, and to the story-like features of their lives that will make the book interesting to the general reader. Ist. If accuracy be wanting, the book could be of no value. The desire and purpose has been to make no statement as of fact that would not bear the criticism even of the men them selves, and in that respect receive their indorsement.