rsonal attributes, which are so strangely distinguished from the
attributes of other great men, are now the most interesting study
of young and old throughout our land, and I can conceive of no more
acceptable presentation to the public than a compilation of anecdotes
and incidents pertaining to the life of the greatest of all our
Presidents.

A.K. McClure

LINCOLN'S NAME AROUSES AN AUDIENCE, BY DR. NEWMAN HALL, of London.

When I have had to address a fagged and listless audience, I have found
that nothing was so certain to arouse them as to introduce the name of
Abraham Lincoln.

REVERE WASHINGTON AND LOVE LINCOLN, REV. DR. THEODORE L. CUYLER.

No other name has such electric power on every true heart, from Maine
to Mexico, as the name of Lincoln. If Washington is the most revered,
Lincoln is the best loved man that ever trod this continent.

GREATEST CHARACTER SINCE CHRIST BY JOHN HAY, Former Private Secretary to
President Lincoln, and Later Secretary of State in President McKinley's
Cabinet.

As, in spite of some rudeness, republicanism is the sole hope of a sick
world, so Lincoln, with all his foibles, is the greatest character since
Christ.

STORIES INFORM THE COMMON PEOPLE, BY CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, United States
Senator from New York.

Mr. Lincoln said to me once: "They say I tell a great many stories; I
reckon I do, but I have found in the course of a long experience that
common people, take them as they run, are more easily informed through
the medium of a broad illustration than in any other way, and as to what
the hypercritical few may think, I don't care."

HUMOR A PASSPORT TO THE HEART BY GEO. S. BOUTWELL, Former Secretary of
the United States Treasury.

Mr. Lincoln's wit and mirth will give him a passport to the thoughts and
hearts of millions who would take no interest in the sterner and more
practical parts of his character.

DROLL, ORIGINAL AND APPROPRIATE. BY ELIHU B. WASHBURNE, Former United
States Minister to France.

Mr. Lincoln's anecdotes were all so droll, so original, so appropriate
and so illustrative of passing incidents, that one never wearied.

LINCOLN'S HUMOR A SPARKLING SPRING, BY DAVID R. LOCKE (PETROLEUM V.
NASBY), Lincoln's Favorite Humorist.

Mr. Lincoln's flow of humor was a sparkling spring, gushing out of a
rock--the flashing water had a somber background which made it all the
brighter.

LIKE AESOP'S FABLES, BY HUGH McCULLOCH, Former Secretary of th