George R. Hearne, Quincy, Ill.---Am highly pleased with the history and would not take five times what it cost and do without it. You certainly deserve a multiplicity of praise for the completeness of the work.

Col. Henry Dudley Teetor, heralder and genealogist, New York City,---Yours is a valuable book, and it certainly is a highly pleasing departure from the ordinary works on genealogy. Many of them being a mere compilation of vital statistics, while yours is a literary, historical and genealogical production, doing great credit to a family that time as well as the King has ennobled, and upon which volumes could be written. The illustrations are artistic, and I admire many of the faces for their force, beauty and intelligence-- some of them Patrician. A thorough elucidation of your ancestral antiquity would result in many more of the proudest pages, that ever appeared in the history of a human family. The Hearne family were in Normandy long before the Conqueror. The Norman rolls shows your name, as originally written, and as a personal designation of Crusaders. Yours is a family of wonderful antiquity, and a book could be published, taking yours as a basis, that would far transcend many that are now being rushed through the press.

From Mary Ann Hearn, better known as Marianne Farmingham Hearn, No. 12 Watkin Terrace, Northampton, England.--- The perusal of your volume of the Hearne history has given me the greatest possible pleasure. I am proud to claim kinship with so able a recorder as yourself and of all the good people who have the advantage of being chronicled by you. In my busy life I have been a long time in finding leisure to peruse it, but when I could give myself to the pleasure, I found the volume a fascinating one indeed. There is not a dull or uninteresting page in it, and some of the pages are delightful.

Mrs. Lucy Jones, Denton, Md.---I am greatly pleased with the book and lost in astonishment at the magnitude of the work. I loaned it to Mrs. Caroline Phillips, nee Cannon, one of old Aunt Easter's mistresses of corn pone fame, and she said that nothing had given her so much pleasure since she became a cripple. That comfort to her is a part of your reward. I love my people and enjoy looking at the faces of those I never expect to see in this life. Your own personal history is especially interesting, though sorrowful. I feel I cannot thank you enough for your labor of the

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