himself up to the passing emotion.  The real seed of the majestic simplicity of those addresses is perhaps to be found in those rhetorical speeches of an early period, so lacking apparently in the qualities that we love and admire.  In writing, as in so many other things, we reap not what we sow, but its fruition.  The effect may seem very remotely related to the cause, but he would be a fool who would deny the relation between them.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The complete works of Abraham Lincoln have been compiled and edited by his biographers, John G. Nicolay and John Hay (two vols., Century Company).  Their life of Lincoln in ten volumes (Century Company) is the standard authority.  There is also an excellent condensation in one volume.  Other biographies are by W. H. Herndon, Lincoln’s law partner (two vols., Putnam); by Miss Ida Tarbell (two vols., McClure); by John T. Morse, Jr., in the American Statesmen Series (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.); and by Norman Hapgood (Macmillan).

Among the many tributes to Lincoln, are the essays by James Russell Lowell, Carl Schurz, the address by Emerson; and poems by Stedman, Bryant, Holmes, Stoddard, Gilder, and Whitman, and the noble lines in Lowell’s Commemoration Ode.

The student of Lincoln’s writings should be familiar with the history of the United States, and should consult the standard histories for explanation of the references to events in the long struggle which culminated in the Civil War.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

Life of Lincoln.         Contemporary            contemporary
biography.               American history.

1809.  Lincoln born, 1809.  Gladstone, 1809.  Madison President. 
Feb. 12.  Darwin, Tennyson,
Poe, Holmes born.

1813.  Douglas born.

1816.  Family moved                              1816.  Indiana admitted
to Indiana.                                     as a state.

1818.  Mother died. 1818.  Illinois admitted
as a state.

1819.  Father married
Sarah Johnston.

1820.  Missouri Compromise.

1821.  Missouri admitted
as a state.

1822.  Grant born.

1829.  Jackson President.

1830.  Family moved      1830.  Douglas moved     1830.  Speeches of Hayne
to Illinois.            to New York.            and Webster.

1831.  Settled in                                1831.  Publication of
New Salem.                                      The Liberatur.

1832.  Enlisted in the 1832.  Founding of the
Black Hawk War:  New England Anti-Slavery
unsuccessful Society.
candidate for the
legislature