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! _Walt Whitman_ 127
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S DEATH _Walt Whitman_ 128
HUSHED BE THE CAMPS TO-DAY _Walt Whitman_ 134
TO THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN _William Cullen Bryant_ 135
CROWN HIS BLOODSTAINED PILLOW _Julia Ward Howe_ 136
THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Walt Whitman_ 137
OUR SUN HATH GONE DOWN _Phoebe Cary_ 139
TOLLING _Lucy Larcom_ 142
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Rose Terry Cooke_ 143
EFFECT OF THE DEATH OF LINCOLN _Henry Ward Beecher_ 144
HYMN _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 151
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Tom Taylor_ 153
VI
TRIBUTES
THE MARTYR CHIEF _James Russell Lowell_ 159
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 161
WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN _William McKinley_ 169
LINCOLN _Theodore Roosevelt_ 170
LINCOLN'S GRAVE _Maurice Thompson_ 170
TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN 173
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _H. H. Brownell_ 174
TRIBUTES 189
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Joel Benton_ 189
ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Richard Watson Gilder_ 190
LINCOLN _George H. Boker_ 192
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _James A. Garfield_ 193
AN HORATIAN ODE _R. H. Stoddard_ 195
SOME FOREIGN TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN _Harriet Beecher Stowe_ 202
THE GETTYSBURG ODE _Bayard Taylor_ 211
TRIBUTES 212
LINCOLN _Macmillan's Magazine_ 214
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _R. H. Stoddard_ 215
LINCOLN _Edna Dean Proctor_ 215
WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D _Walt Whitman_ 218
VII
THE WHOLE MAN
LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE _Edwin Markham_ 233
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN _George Bancroft_ 235
ABRAHAM LINCOLN _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 378
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION 380
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 382
REMARKS TO NEGROES ON THE STREETS OF RICHMOND 383
SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS 384