McClures Magazine, Volume VI, No. 3. February 1896

McClure's Magazine, Volume VI, No. 3. February 1896

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McCLURE'S MAGAZINE
FEBRUARY, 1896.
VOL. VI. NO. 3.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Ida M. Tarbell. Lincoln's Life at New Salem from 1832 to 1836. Looking for Work. Decides to Buy a Store. He Begins to Study Law. Berry and Lincoln Get a Tavern License. The Firm Hires a Clerk. Lincoln Appointed Postmaster. A New Opening. Surveying with a Grapevine. Business Reverses. The Kindness Shown Lincoln in New Salem. Lincoln's Acquaintance in Sangamon County Is Extended. He Finally Decides on a Legal Career. Lincoln Enters the Illinois Assembly. The Story of Ann Rutledge. Abraham Lincoln at Twenty-six Years of Age. A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL. By Ian Maclaren. THE FASTEST RAILROAD RUN EVER MADE. By Harry Perry Robinson. A CENTURY OF PAINTING. By Will H. Low. THE TRAGEDY OF GARFIELD'S ADMINISTRATION. By Murat Halstead. Garfield's Administration. The Garfields in the White House. Last Interview with President Garfield. THE VICTORY OF THE GRAND DUKE OF MITTENHEIM. By Anthony Hope.
Chapter II
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CHAPTERS
FROM A LIFE. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. THE TOUCHSTONE. By Robert Louis Stevenson. MAGAZINE NOTES. Mrs. Humphry Ward--Dr. Jowett. Three Hundred Thousand. Our Own Printing Establishment. Anthony Hope's New Novel. The Life of Lincoln. The Early Life of Lincoln. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. "The Sabine Women"--A Correction.
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 EIGHTY 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. "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."

McCLURE'S MAGAZINE
VOL. VI. FEBRUARY, 1896, NO. 3.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY IDA M. TARBELL.
LINCOLN'S LIFE AT NEW SALEM FROM 1832 TO 1836.
BERRY AND LINCOLN'S GROCERY.--A SET OF BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES.--BERRY AND LINCOLN TAKE OUT A TAVERN LICENSE.--THE POSTMASTER OF NEW SALEM IN 1833.--LINCOLN BECOMES DEPUTY SURVEYOR.--THE FAILURE OF BERRY AND LINCOLN.--ELECTIONEERING IN ILLINOIS.--LINCOLN CHOSEN ASSEMBLYMAN.--BEGINS TO STUDY LAW.--THE ILLINOIS STATE LEGISLATURE IN 1834.--THE STORY OF ANN RUTLEDGE.--ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF AGE.
_Embodying special studies in Lincoln's life at New Salem by J. McCan Davis._
LOOKING FOR WORK.
It was in August, 1832, that Lincoln made his unsuccessful