McClure's Magazine
Reading edition
January, 1896.
Vol. VI. No. 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Edited by Ida M. Tarbell.115
Lincoln's First Experiences in Illinois. 115
In Charge of Denton Offutt's Store. 115
The Clary's Grove Boys. 117
Lincoln Studies Grammar. 119
A Candidate for the General Assembly. 122
The Black Hawk War. 127
Lincoln a Captain. 129
The Black Hawk Campaign. 132
Electioneering for the General Assembly. 135
EUGENE FIELD AND HIS CHILD FRIENDS. By Cleveland Moffett.137
POEMS OF CHILDHOOD. By Eugene Field. 140
With Trumpet and Drum. 140
The Delectable Ballad of the Waller Lot. 140
The Rock-a-by Lady. 142
"Booh!" 142
The Duel. 143
The Ride to Bumpville. 143
So, So, Rock-a-by So! 144
Seein' Things. 144
A CENTURY OF PAINTING. By Will H. Low.145
THE DEFEAT OF BLAINE FOR THE PRESIDENCY. By Murat Halstead.159
THE NEW STATUE OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. By Frank B. Gessner.172
THE SILENT WITNESS. By Herbert D. Ward.175
THE SUN'S LIGHT. By Sir Robert Ball.187
CHAPTERS FROM A LIFE. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.191
Life in Andover before the War. 191
THE WAGER OF THE MARQUIS DE MÉROSAILLES. By Anthony Hope.198
MISS TARBELL'S LIFE OF LINCOLN. 206
ILLUSTRATIONS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN 1861.
THE KIRKHAM'S GRAMMAR USED BY LINCOLN AT NEW SALEM.
A CLARY'S GROVE LOG CABIN.
NANCY GREEN.
DUTCH OVEN.
LINCOLN IN 1858.
JOHN POTTER.
JOHN A. CLARY.
SITE OF DENTON OFFUTT'S STORE.
ZACHARY TAYLOR.
BOWLING GREEN'S HOUSE.
THE BLACK HAWK.
WHIRLING THUNDER.
WHITE CLOUD, THE PROPHET.
BLACK HAWK.
LINCOLN IN 1860.
BLACK HAWK WAR RELICS.
MAJOR ROBERT ANDERSON.
MONUMENT AT KELLOGG'S GROVE.
JOHN REYNOLDS, GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS 1831-1834.
ELIJAH ILES.
A DISCHARGE FROM SERVICE IN BLACK HAWK WAR SIGNED BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
MAP OF ILLINOIS IN 1832.
A FACSIMILE OF AN ELECTION RETURN WRITTEN BY LINCOLN.
VIEW OF THE SANGAMON RIVER NEAR NEW SALEM.
EUGENE FIELD TELLING A STORY.
THE LAST PORTRAIT OF EUGENE FIELD.
LUCY ALEXANDER KNOTT.
JAMES BRECKINRIDGE WALLER, JR..
KENDALL EVANS.
WILLIAM AND KENT CLOW.
ROSWELL FRANCIS FIELD, EUGENE FIELD'S YOUNGEST SON.
ELIZABETH WINSLOW.
IRVING WAY, JR..
KATHERINE KOHLSAAT.
PARK YENOWINE.
THE SABINE WOMEN.
JACQUES LOUIS DAVID AS A YOUNG MAN.
MICHEL GÉRARD AND HIS FAMILY.
POPE PIUS VII.
JUSTICE AND DIVINE VENGEANCE PURSUING CRIME.
THE ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN.
HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN.
PRUD'HON.
THE PRINCESS VISCONTI.
THE COUNTESS REGNAULT DE SAINT-JEAN-D'ANGELY.
THE ARRIVAL OF A DILIGENCE.
BRUTUS CONDEMNING HIS SONS TO DEATH.
THE BURIAL OF ATALA.
MADAME LEBRUN AND HER DAUGHTER.
FRANCIS I., KING OF FRANCE, AND CHARLES V., EMPEROR OF THE HOLY ROME EMPIRE.
JAMES G. BLAINE.
MR. BLAINE IN 1891.
MR. BLAINE AT HIS DESK IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT.
FACSIMILE OF THE LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. BLAINE TO MR. HALSTEAD
BLAINE'S GRAVE AT WASHINGTON, D.C..
STATUE OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
ANNA SYMMES HARRISON.
THE SILENT WITNESS.
"MOVE ON, WILL YER!"
"AM--I--IMPRISONED BECAUSE I AM FRIENDLESS AND POOR? IS THIS YOUR LAW?"
"OH, MY GOD!" HE SOBBED. "MY GOD! MY GOD!"
THE SUN'S CORONA.
ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE AT 10.34 A.M.
ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE AT 10.40 A.M.
ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE AT 10.58 A.M.
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BUILDINGS, ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS.
PROFESSOR AUSTIN PHELPS'S STUDY.
VIEW LOOKING FROM THE FRONT OF ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS'S HOME.
DR. EDWARDS A. PARK.
THE PHYSICIAN RECEIVING THE PRINCESS IN THE MARQUIS'S SICKROOM.
SHE STOLE UP AND SAW MONSIEUR DE MÉROSAILLES SITTING ON THE GROUND.
LINCOLN IN 1863.
LINCOLN IN 1854.
LINCOLN IN FEBRUARY, 1860.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN 1861.—NOW FIRST PUBLISHED.
From a photograph owned by Allen Jasper Conant, to whose courtesy we owe the right to reproduce it here. This photograph was taken in Springfield in the spring of 1861, by C.S. German.