Front matter
Reading edition
Uniform with This Volume GEORGE WASHINGTON By PAUL LEICESTER FORD "This work challenges attention for the really valuable light which it throws upon the character of George Washington." —Philadelphia Bulletin. THOMAS JEFFERSON By WILLIAM ELEROY CURTIS "The volume is particularly worth reading because it revives the many-sided nature and activity of a truly great man." —Springfield Republican. "A most readable and entertaining volume. Jefferson will stand higher in popular estimation because of the human touch in the picture." —Brooklyn Eagle.
Copyright, 1891, by M. P. Rice
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
From an original, unretouched negative made in 1864
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
BY WILLIAM ELEROY CURTIS AUTHOR OF "THOMAS JEFFERSON", "THE TURK AND HIS LOST PROVINCES", "THE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN POWERS", ETC.
WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.
He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. —Lowell, Commemoration Ode