SKETCHES AND STUDIES

by

Nathaniel Hawthorne



CONTENTS

Life of Franklin Pierce
Chiefly about War Matters
Alice Doane's Appeal
The Ancestral Footstep





LIFE OF FRANKLIN PIERCE.


PREFACE.

The author of this memoir--being so little of a politician that he
scarcely feels entitled to call himself a member of any party--would not
voluntarily have undertaken the work here offered to the public. Neither
can he flatter himself that he has been remarkably successful in the
performance of his task, viewing it in the light of a political
biography, and as a representation of the principles and acts of a public