McClure's Magazine
Reading edition
February, 1896.
Vol. VI. No. 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Ida M. Tarbell. 213
Lincoln's Life at New Salem from 1832 to 1836. 213
Looking for Work. 213
Decides to Buy a Store. 213
He Begins to Study Law. 221
Berry and Lincoln Get a Tavern License. 226
The Firm Hires a Clerk. 227
Lincoln Appointed Postmaster. 228
A New Opening. 228
Surveying with a Grapevine. 230
Business Reverses. 230
The Kindness Shown Lincoln in New Salem. 232
Lincoln's Acquaintance in Sangamon County Is Extended. 232
He Finally Decides on a Legal Career. 233
Lincoln Enters the Illinois Assembly. 234
The Story of Ann Rutledge. 236
Abraham Lincoln at Twenty-six Years of Age. 238
A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL. By Ian Maclean. 241
THE FASTEST RAILROAD RUN EVER MADE. By Harry Perry Robinson. 247
A CENTURY OF PAINTING. By Will H. Low. 256
THE TRAGEDY OF GARFIELD'S ADMINISTRATION. By Murat Halstead. 269
Garfield's Administration. 274
The Garfields in the White House. 277
Last Interview with President Garfield. 278
THE VICTORY OF THE GRAND DUKE OF MITTENHEIM. By Anthony Hope. 280
Chapter II. 288
CHAPTERS FROM A LIFE. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 293
THE TOUCHSTONE. By Robert Louis Stevenson. 300
MAGAZINE NOTES. 304
Mrs. Humphry Ward—Dr. Jowett. 304
Three Hundred Thousand. 304
Our Own Printing Establishment. 304
Anthony Hope's New Novel. 304
The Life of Lincoln. 304
The Early Life of Lincoln. 304
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 304
"The Sabine Women"—A Correction. 304
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE EARLIEST PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
LINCOLN IN 1859.
LINCOLN IN THE SUMMER OF 1860.
LINCOLN EARLY IN 1861.
LINCOLN IN 1861.
THE STATE-HOUSE AT VANDALIA, ILLINOIS.
LINCOLN'S SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS.
FACSIMILE OF A TAVERN LICENSE ISSUED TO BERRY AND LINCOLN.
BERRY AND LINCOLN'S STORE IN 1895.
DANIEL GREEN BURNER, BERRY AND LINCOLN'S CLERK.
THE REV. JOHN M. CAMERON.
JAMES SHORT.
SQUIRE COLEMAN SMOOT.
SAMUEL HILL--AT WHOSE STORE LINCOLN KEPT THE POST-OFFICE.
MARY ANN RUTLEDGE, MOTHER OF ANN MAYES RUTLEDGE.
JOHN CALHOUN, UNDER WHOM LINCOLN LEARNED SURVEYING.
LINCOLN'S SADDLE-BAGS.
REPORT OF A ROAD SURVEY BY LINCOLN.
A MAP MADE BY LINCOLN OF A PIECE OF ROAD IN MENARD COUNTY.
A WAYSIDE WELL NEAR NEW SALEM, KNOWN AS "ANN RUTLEDGE'S WELL."
CONCORD CEMETERY.
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.
MAJOR JOHN T. STUART.
JOSEPH DUNCAN, GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS DURING LINCOLN'S FIRST TERM.
GRAVE OF ANN RUTLEDGE IN OAKLAND CEMETERY.
"I WENT UP TO MR. PERKINS'S ROOM WITHOUT CEREMONY."
"HE HAD THE JOLLIEST LITTLE DINNER READY YOU EVER SAW."
VIEW BACK ON THE TRACK WHEN TRAIN WAS RUNNING AT ABOUT 80 MPH.
JOHN NEWELL.
THE TEN-WHEEL ENGINE 564.
THE BROOKS ENGINE 599.
THE ENGINEERS WHO BROUGHT THE TRAIN FROM CHICAGO TO CLEVELAND.
J.R. GARNER, ENGINEER FROM CLEVELAND TO ERIE.
WILLIAM TUNKEY, ENGINEER FROM ERIE TO BUFFALO.
GEORGE ROMNEY, PAINTER OF "THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER."
THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER.
JOHN CONSTABLE.
FLATFORD MILL, ON THE RIVER STOUR.
THE HAY-WAIN.
THE "FIGHTING TEMERAIRE" TUGGED TO HER LAST BERTH.
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER.
PEACE--BURIAL AT SEA OF THE BODY OF SIR DAVID WILKIE.
PORTRAIT OF A BOY.
JOHN HOPPNER.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY.
PORTRAIT OF A CHILD.
MRS. SIDDONS.
LADY BLESSINGTON.
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE.
MISS BARRON, AFTERWARDS MRS. RAMSEY.
PORTRAIT OF A BROTHER AND SISTER.
GARFIELD IN 1881, WHILE PRESIDENT. AGE 49.
GARFIELD IN 1863.
GARFIELD IN 1863.
GARFIELD IN 1867, WITH HIS DAUGHTER.
"FROM THE LONG GRASS BY THE RIVER'S EDGE A YOUNG MAN SPRANG UP."
"'YOU ARE THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD,' HE ANSWERED SMILING."
"'LISTEN!' SHE CRIED, SPRINGING TO HER FEET."
"HE LEANED FROM HIS SADDLE AS HE DASHED BY."
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
PROFESSOR AUSTIN PHELPS, FATHER OF ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS.
PROFESSOR M. STUART PHELPS, ELDEST SON OF PROFESSOR AUSTIN PHELPS.
"HE WAS A GRAVE MAN, AND BESIDE HIM STOOD HIS DAUGHTER."
"'MAID,' QUOTH HE, 'I WOULD FAIN MARRY YOU.'"
"ALL THAT DAY HE RODE, AND HIS MIND WAS QUIET."