McClure's Magazine
Reading edition
March, 1896.
Vol. VI. No. 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Ida M. Tarbell. 307
Lincoln Is Admitted to the Bar. 310
Lincoln in the Tenth Assembly of Illinois. 312
The Removal of the Capital to Springfield. 315
Lincoln's First Reported Speech. 317
Abraham Lincoln's First Protest Against Slavery. 320
Social Life in Vandalia in 1836 and 1837. 321
Lincoln Moves to Springfield. 322
Lincoln's Position in Springfield. 325
THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF. By Rudyard Kipling. 328
A CENTURY OF PAINTING. By Will H. Low.337
CY AND I. By Eugene Field. 353
A YOUNG HERO. By John Hay. 354
CHAPTERS FROM A LIFE. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 361
LOST YOUTH. By R.L. Steveson. 369
THE DIVIDED HOUSE. By Julia D. Whiting. 370
SCIENTIFIC KITE-FLYING. By Cleveland Moffett. 379
How to Make a Scientific Kite. 380
How to Send Up a Kite. 382
Runaway Tandems. 383
The Lifting Power of Kites. 384
The Meteorological Use of Kites. 386
The Highest Flight Ever Made by a Kite. 387
Drawing Down Electricity by a Kite-string. 390
The Use of Kites in Photography. 390
Possible Use of Kites in War. 391
A DRAMATIC POINT. By Robert Barr. 393
EDITORIAL NOTES. 399
"Justice, Where Art Thou?" 399
"A Disgrace to Civilization." 399
The Real Lincoln. 400
Lincoln in 1860--J. Henry Brown's Journal. 400
ILLUSTRATIONS
LINCOLN IN 1860.--HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.
LINCOLN IN 1860.--HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.
EBENEZER PECK.
NINIAN W. EDWARDS.
JOB FLETCHER, SR.
WILLIAM F. ELKINS.
ROBERT L. WILSON.
JOHN DAWSON.
ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY.
LINCOLN IN 1863 OR 1864.
FRONTISPIECE OF "ALTON TRIALS."
STUART AND LINCOLN'S PROFESSIONAL CARD.
OFFICE CHAIR FROM STUART AND LINCOLN'S LAW OFFICE.
STUART AND LINCOLN'S LAW OFFICE.
A STAGE-COACH ADVERTISEMENT, 1834.
MARY L. OWENS.
LINCOLN AND HIS SON THOMAS, FAMILIARLY KNOWN AS "TAD."
PAGE FROM STUART AND LINCOLN'S FEE BOOK.
OLD SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.
INVITATION TO A SPRINGFIELD COTILLION PARTY OF WHICH
MAP OF ILLINOIS.
THE WAVE "WENT OUT IN THREE SURGES, MAKING A CLEAN SWEEP OF A BOAT."
THE "DIMBULA" TAKING CARGO FOR HER FIRST VOYAGE.
"AN UNUSUALLY SEVERE PITCH ... HAD LIFTED THE BIG THROBBING SCREW
THE GARROTED MAN. FROM AN ETCHING BY GOYA.
DEATH ON THE BATTLE-FIELD. FROM AN ETCHING BY GOYA.
GOYA. FROM A PORTRAIT ETCHED BY HIMSELF.
ST. JUSTINA AND ST. RUFINA. FROM A PAINTING BY GOYA IN
THE BLIND FIDDLER. FROM A PAINTING BY SIR DAVID WILKIE.
CHOOSING THE WEDDING GOWN. FROM A PAINTING BY WILLIAM MULREADY IN THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM, LONDON.
CONTRARY WINDS. FROM A PAINTING BY THOMAS WEBSTER.
SANCHO PANZA IN THE APARTMENT OF THE DUCHESS. FROM A PAINTING BY
THE RAFT OF THE "MEDUSA." FROM A PAINTING BY GÉRICAULT IN THE
INGRES. FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED BY HIMSELF.
DELACROIX. FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED BY HIMSELF IN 1837.
A PORTRAIT OF INGRES, DRAWN IN ROME IN 1816.
APOTHEOSIS OF HOMER. FROM A PAINTING BY INGRES.
THE SEIZURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY THE CRUSADERS. FROM A PAINTING
DANTE AND VIRGIL CROSSING THE LAKE WHICH SURROUNDS THE INFERNAL
HENRY H. MILLER,
ELLSWORTH IN THE SPRING OF 1861, WHEN HE
ELLSWORTH IN 1860, WHEN HE WAS CAPTAIN OF THE CHICAGO COMPANY.
FRANK E. BROWNELL, WHO KILLED THE ASSASSIN
THE DEATH OF COLONEL ELLSWORTH.
THE MARSHALL HOUSE, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, IN WHICH COLONEL
COLONEL ELLSWORTH AND A GROUP OF MILITIA OFFICERS.
"THE OLD BRICK ACADEMY," PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ANDOVER,
ABBOT ACADEMY, ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS.
"THE STONE BUILDING," PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS.
THE HOUSE IN ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS, WHERE THE SCHOOL CALLED "THE
HENRY MILLS ALDEN, EDITOR OF "HARPER'S MAGAZINE."
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN.
"'WALL, ARMIDY, WALL, LUCAS, THE DOCTOR DON'T SEEM TO THINK I
THE DIVIDED HOUSE.--"ARMIDA'S SIDE OF THE HOUSE FELL MORE AND
AS ARMIDA SAT ON THE BENCH UNDER THE OLD RUSSET APPLE-TREE, ...
EVENING IN THE DIVIDED KITCHEN.
"LOOKING BEFORE THEM THEY
HARGRAVE LIFTED SIXTEEN FEET FROM THE GROUND
Frankfort Street. PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW FROM A KITE.
Frankfort Street. PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW FROM A KITE.
THE EDDY TAILLESS KITE.
THE HARGRAVE BOX-KITE.
NEW YORK, EAST RIVER, BROOKLYN, AND NEW YORK BAY, FROM A KITE.
PHOTOGRAPHING FROM A KITE-LINE.
CITY HALL PARK AND BROADWAY FROM A KITE.
Murray Street. Warren Street.
KITE-DRAWN BUOY.
DIRIGIBLE KITE-DRAWN BUOY.
THE KITE-BUOY IN SERVICE.
MY GOD!--YOU WERE RIGHT--AFTER ALL."
LINCOLN IN 1860.—HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.
From an ambrotype taken in Springfield, Illinois, on August 13, 1860, and now owned by Mr. William H. Lambert of Philadelphia, through whose courtesy we are allowed to reproduce it here. This ambrotype was bought by Mr. Lambert from Mr. W.P. Brown of Philadelphia. Mr. Brown writes of the portrait: "This picture, along with another one of the same kind, was presented by President Lincoln to my father, J. Henry Brown, deceased (miniature artist), after he had finished painting Lincoln's picture on ivory, at Springfield, Illinois. The commission was given my father by Judge Read (John M. Read of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania), immediately after Lincoln's nomination for the Presidency. One of the ambrotypes I sold to the Historical Society of Boston, Massachusetts, and it is now in their possession." The miniature referred to is now owned by Mr. Robert T. Lincoln. It was engraved by Samuel Sartain, and circulated widely before the inauguration. After Mr. Lincoln grew a beard, Sartain put a beard on his plate, and the engraving continued to sell extensively. While Mr. Brown was in Springfield painting the miniature he kept a journal, which Mr. Lambert also owns and which he has generously put at our disposal. It will be found on page 400.