Part 43 (1/2)
[Footnote 994: Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, pp.
126-127.]
[Footnote 995: Arnold, Lincoln, p. 201, note.]
[Footnote 996: The speech was printed in full in the New York _Tribune_, May 1, 1861.]
[Footnote 997: The New York _Tribune_, June 13th, and the Philadelphia _Press_, June 14th, published this speech in full.]
[Footnote 998: Arnold, Lincoln, p. 193. See also his remarks in the Senate, January 3, 1861.]
Norman Hapgood's _biographies_
Ill.u.s.trated with portraits, fac similes, etc.
Abraham Lincoln--The Man of the People
”A Life of Lincoln that has never been surpa.s.sed in vividness, compactness and lifelike reality,”--_Chicago Tribune_.
”Perhaps the best short biography that has yet appeared.”--_Review of Reviews_.
”Its depth, its clearness, its comprehensiveness, seem to me to mark the author as a genuine critic of the broader and the higher school.”--_Justin McCarthy_.
George Was.h.i.+ngton
”Mr. Hapgood may have done more brilliant or more entertaining work in other fields but we doubt if any of his previous work will take its place in permanent literature so certainly as this study of Was.h.i.+ngton.”--_Daily Eagle_.
”Mr. Norman Hapgood's 'George Was.h.i.+ngton' is characterized by an unusual amount of judicious quotation, and also by many pages of graphic narrative and description. It has not been customary heretofore, in brief biographies of eminent men, to put the reader so closely in touch with the sources of history. In this case, however, the method adopted by Mr.
Hapgood has not only greatly enhanced the historical value of his work, but has at the same time added to its intrinsic interest.”--_Review of Reviews_.
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Mr. Owen Wister's _sketch of_
The Seven Ages of Was.h.i.+ngton
”A bright, enjoyable book, brimfull of individuality, containing one of the truest sketches of Was.h.i.+ngton ever written,”--_Record-Herald_, Chicago.
”The essence of the whole book is character, and it is as a study of character that it possesses unique value.... It would be a good thing for high school and college students if this study of Was.h.i.+ngton were made a required text-book in the course of American history. Certainly the young Americans of our day would get from it a far more correct idea of Was.h.i.+ngton's life, character and influence than from any of the standard biographies or histories.”--_San Francisco Chronicle_.
”The value of the book consists largely in its placing of Was.h.i.+ngton in the right perspective. Mr. Wister's portrait of him is all of a piece.
”The background, like the portrait, is handled with perfect discretion. The reader who is searching for an authoritative biography of Was.h.i.+ngton, brief, and made humanly interesting from the first page to the last, will find it here.”--From a column review of the book in _The New York Tribune_, Nov.