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INTRODUCTION--The Poetic Spirit of Lincoln, by Marion Mills
Miller .................................................... v
MY CHILDHOOD'S HOME I SEE AGAIN, by Abraham Lincoln .......... vi
BUT HERE'S AN OBJECT MORE OF DREAD, by Abraham Lincoln ..... viii
OH, WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE PROUD? By William
Knox ..................................................... ix
SPEECH AT GETTYSBURG (in verse form), by Abraham Lincoln ... xiii
SOLILOQUY OF KING CLAUDIUS, by William Shakespeare ......... xvii
LINCOLN, by Julia Ward Howe .................................... 14
THE GREAT OAK, by Bennett Chapple .............................. 15
LINCOLN, by Noah Davis ......................................... 17
THE BIRTH OF LINCOLN, by George W. Crofts ...................... 19
MENDELSSOHN, DARWIN, LINCOLN, by Clarence E. Carr .............. 20
THE NATAL DAY OF LINCOLN, by James Phinney Baxter .............. 22
NANCY HANKS, by Harriet Monroe ................................. 25
LINCOLN THE LABORER, by Richard Henry Stoddard ................. 29
A PEACEFUL LIFE, by James Whitcomb Riley ....................... 31
LEADER OF HIS PEOPLE, by William Wilberforce Newton ............ 32
LINCOLN, by Wilbur Hazelton Smith .............................. 35
LINCOLN IN HIS OFFICE CHAIR, by James Riley .................... 37
THE VOICE OF LINCOLN, by Elizabeth Porter Gould ................ 41
THE THOUGHTS OF LINCOLN, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ............ 43
ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by Richard Watson
Gilder ................................................... 45
THE HAND OF LINCOLN, by Edmund Clarence Stedman ................ 47
HONEST ABE OF THE WEST, by Edmund Clarence Stedman ............. 51
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, 1860, by William Henry Burleigh ......... 53
LINCOLN, 1809--FEBRUARY 12, 1909, by Madison Cawein ............ 56
THE MATCHLESS LINCOLN, by Isaac Bassett Choate ................. 59
LINCOLN, by Charlotte Becker ................................... 61
LINCOLN AT SPRINGFIELD, 1861, by Anna Bache .................... 65
LINCOLN CALLED TO THE PRESIDENCY, by Henry Wilson
Clendenin ................................................ 70
LINCOLN THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by Edwin Markham ................ 74
LINCOLN, by