McClures Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2

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McCLURE'S MAGAZINE
JANUARY, 1896
Vol. VI, JANUARY, 1896, NO. 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Edited by Ida M. Tarbell.
Lincoln's First Experiences in Illinois. In Charge of Denton Offutt's
Store. The Clary's Grove Boys. Lincoln Studies Grammar. A Candidate
for the General Assembly. The Black Hawk War. Lincoln a Captain.
The Black Hawk Campaign. Electioneering for the General Assembly.
EUGENE FIELD AND HIS CHILD FRIENDS. By Cleveland Moffett.
POEMS OF CHILDHOOD, By Eugene Field. With Trumpet and Drum.
The Delectable Ballad of the Waller Lot. The Rock-a-by Lady. "Booh!"
The Duel. The Ride to Bumpville. So, So, Rock-a-by so! Seein' Things.
A CENTURY OF PAINTING. By Will H. Low. THE DEFEAT OF
BLAINE FOR THE PRESIDENCY. By Murat Halstead. THE SILENT
WITNESS. By Herbert D. Ward THE SUN'S LIGHT. By Sir Robert
Ball,
CHAPTERS
FROM A LIFE. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Life in Andover before the
War. THE WAGER OF THE MARQUIS DE MÉROSAILLES. By
Anthony Hope, MISS TARBELL'S LIFE OF LINCOLN.
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 ROMAN 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?" "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.

[Illustration: 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.]

MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE
VOL. VI. JANUARY, 1896. NO. 2.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
EDITED BY IDA M. TARBELL.
LINCOLN AS STOREKEEPER AND SOLDIER IN THE BLACK
HAWK WAR.
_This article embodies special studies of Lincoln's life in New Salem
made for this Magazine by J. McCan Davis_.
LINCOLN'S FIRST EXPERIENCES IN ILLINOIS.
It was in March, 1830, when Abraham Lincoln was twenty-one years of
age, that he moved from Indiana to Macon County, Illinois. He spent
his first spring in the new country helping his father settle. In the
summer of that year he started out for himself, doing various kinds of