McClures 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
.
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