_Goldwin Smith_ 276
GREATNESS OF HIS SIMPLICITY _H. A. Delano_ 278
HORACE GREELEY'S ESTIMATE OF LINCOLN 279
LINCOLN _J. T. Trowbridge_ 282
THE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF LINCOLN _B. B. Tyler_ 282
TO THE SPIRIT OF LINCOLN _R. W. Gilder_ 296
LINCOLN AS A TYPICAL AMERICAN _Phillips Brooks_ 297
LINCOLN AS CAVALIER AND PURITAN _H. W. Grady_ 304
LINCOLN, THE TENDER-HEARTED _H. W. Bolton_ 306
THE CHARACTER OF LINCOLN _W. H. Herndon_ 307
"WITH CHARITY FOR ALL" _W. T. Sherman_ 317
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY _Ida V. Woodbury_ 318
FEBRUARY TWELFTH _M. H. Howliston_ 319
TWO FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS _L. M. Hadley and C. Z. Denton_ 323

VIII
LINCOLN'S PLACE IN HISTORY

THE THREE GREATEST AMERICANS _Theodore Roosevelt_ 333
HIS CHOICE AND HIS DESTINY _F. M. Bristol_ 333
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Robert G. Ingersoll_ 334
LINCOLN _Paul Laurence Dunbar_ 341
THE GRANDEST FIGURE _Walt Whitman_ 342
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Lyman Abbott_ 345
"LINCOLN THE IMMORTAL" _Anonymous_ 346
THE CRISIS AND THE HERO _Frederic Harrison_ 349
LINCOLN _John Vance Cheney_ 351
MAJESTIC IN HIS INDIVIDUALITY _S. P. Newman_ 353

IX
LINCOLN YARNS AND SAYINGS

THE QUESTION OF LEGS 359
HOW LINCOLN WAS PRESENTED WITH A KNIFE 360
"WEEPING WATER" 361
MILD REBUKE TO A DOCTOR 362

X
FROM LINCOLN'S SPEECHES AND WRITINGS

LINCOLN'S LIFE AS WRITTEN BY HIMSELF 365
THE INJUSTICE OF SLAVERY 365
SPEECH AT COOPER INSTITUTE 368
FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS 371
LETTER TO HORACE GREELEY 376
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION