1916

Copyright, 1909, by
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
NEW YORK

Published, January, 1909

2nd Printing--June, 1911
3rd Printing--July, 1914
4th Printing--Feb. 1916

CONTENTS

PAGE
PREFACE ix

INTRODUCTION xi

I
A BIRDSEYE VIEW OF LINCOLN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 3
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF LINCOLN'S LIFE _Osborn H. Oldroyd_ 6

II
EARLY LIFE

LINCOLN'S EDUCATION _Horace Greeley_ 15
ABE LINCOLN'S HONESTY 17
THE BOY THAT HUNGERED FOR KNOWLEDGE 18
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Florence E. Pratt_ 19
YOUNG LINCOLN'S KINDNESS OF HEART 20
A VOICE FROM THE WILDERNESS _Charles Sumner_ 21
CHOOSING ABE LINCOLN CAPTAIN 22

III
MATURITY

LINCOLN'S MARRIAGE 31
HOW LINCOLN AND JUDGE B---- SWAPPED HORSES 33
LINCOLN AS A MAN OF LETTERS _H. W. Mabie_ 34
LINCOLN'S PRESENCE OF BODY 44
HOW LINCOLN BECAME A NATIONAL FIGURE _Ida M. Tarbell_ 45
LINCOLN'S LOVE FOR THE LITTLE ONES 89
HOW LINCOLN TOOK HIS ALTITUDE 90

IV
IN THE WHITE HOUSE

HOW LINCOLN WAS ABUSED 95
SONNET IN 1862 _John James Piatt_ 96
LINCOLN THE PRESIDENT _James Russell Lowell_ 96
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Frank Moore_ 109
THE PROCLAMATION _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 110
THE EMANCIPATION _James A. Garfield_ 112
THE EMANCIPATION GROUP _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 121
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S CHRISTMAS GIFT _Nora Perry_ 122

V
DEATH OF LINCOLN

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!