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Vol. 8. No. 5.

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February, 1915

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" I can't help it! He's a good turke)- and I won't have him killed,''
in passionate grief from Tad

Prom "More than Conquerors." Copyriiht, 1014, by The Century Co. By pcnnission.

GOOD BIOGRAPHY.

"More Than Conquerors" is the fortunate title
of a new book of biographical sketches written for
young people by Ariadne Gilbert. The author has
chosen a group of interesting heroes of peace from
several different countries and walks of life. She
bids you "consider them guests in your house, made
welcome not only for their great nobility, but for
all their httle personal ways.

"Emerson has his pie for breakfast and Beethoven
his superb self-made coffee — sixty beans to a cup.
Phillips Brook's voice, a little off the tune, rings
out lustily while he takes his morning bath. Leave
Stevenson's old hat on the peg, he hates to wear a

new one; and arrange for Scott to ride horseback
and Saint Gaudens to swim. Perhaps Agassiz will
spend the whole day in a bog, hunting for turtles'
eggs."

Charles and Mary Lamb, Washington Irving,
Thackeray, Livingstone, Pasteur, Edwin Booth,
Saint Gaudens, are other celebrities, of whose inti-
mate lives you may take a glimpse and, last of all,
towering above the company as the steep, craggy,
Matterhorn towers above its surrounding Alpine
peaks — is Abraham Lincoln — "Matterhorn of Men."

Here is a sample page from the Lincoki sketch
which may be useful on February 12th.

LINCOLN.

■" By Witter Bynner.

Lincoln?

Well, I was in the old Second Maine,

Tlie first regiment in AA'ashiiigton from the Pine Tree State.

Of course I didn't get the butt of the clip;

We was there for guardin' Washington, —

We was all green.

I ain't never ben to but one theater in my life, —
I didn't know how to behave;
I ain't never ben since.

I can see as plain as my hat the box where he sat in
When he was shot.
There was quite a panic

When we found our President was in the shape he was in;
Never saw a soldier in the world but what liked him.

Yes, sir. His looks was kind o' hard to forget. —
He was a spare man
An old farmer.

Everj'thing was all right you know,
But he wasn't a smooth-appcariu' man at all,^
Not in no ways;
Thin-faced, long-necked.
And a swellin' kind of a thick lip like, —
A neighbourin' farmer. —

And he was a jolly old fellow, — always cheerful;
He wasn't so high but the boys could talk to him their own
ways.

While I was servin' at the Hospital
He'd come in and say, "You look nice in here," —
Praise us up, you know.
And he'd talk so good to 'em — so close —
That's why I call him a farmer.
I don't mean that everything about him wasn't all right, you

understand.
It's jes' — well, I was a farmer —
And he was jes' everj'body's neighbour. —
I guess even you young folks would' a' liked him.

TAD'S TURKEY.

"We do not wonder that he had to snatch from his
labors moments of rest through humorous books,
the theater, or Httle Tad. Robert Lincoln was no
longer a child. He had entered Harvard before
his father became President. But young Tad not
only had the freedom of the White House ; he went
along on horseback when his father reviewed the
troops. The President sat his horse like a gen-
eral, and Tad galloped gaily behind, his cloak flying
in the wind. Probably the child thought that his
father was as interested in all the boy's affairs,
particularly the pet goats, and Jack the turkey, as
he was in the outcome of the war. Early one
December, this fine large turkey had been sent to
the White House for the President's Christmas
dinner. Tad immediately adopted him, fed him
and trained him to follow him about the yard. In
the midst of a Cabinet meeting, a few days before
Christmas, the child flung open the door, and rush-
ing to his father, sobbed out: 'They're going to kill
Jack! They're going to kill Jack!'

Official business waited. The President held the
throbbing little body close for a moment, and then
said, taking the tear-stained face between his hands:

'But Jack was sent to us to be killed and eaten
for this very Christmas.'

'I can't help it ! He's a good turkey and I won't
have him killed!' in passionate grief from Tad.

Then, with comical dignity, Lincoln took a small
card, and wrote on it Jack's rcijrieve in the exact
form he used for the reprie\is of other condemned
prisoners; and Tad, a winning lawyer, raced off, to
set the turkey free.

_ Lincoln's children were not tlie only ones to feel
his fathcrliness. The soldiers loved to have him
come to camp and shake their hands, and call them
his 'boys.' Some he knew even by their first
names.

'He always called me Joe,' remembers one old
veteran. "That coffee smells good, boys; give me
a cup,' he would say, or he would sit down on a
campstool among them to cat beans. Thougli at
one time, when he made his hospital rounds, there
were from five to six thousand soldiers, he shook
hands with every one, lighting the grizzled faces
and sunken eyes with that tenderly sympathetic
smile that almost had the power of heaUng."

ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE ARTICLES ABOUT
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

(A source of good pictures, for mounting.)

Adams, J. C. — Lincoln's Place in History. (Port.) Century,

V. 25, p. 590.
Adams, J. W. — ^The Wide Awake Campaign, ISGO. (Four

pictures. Port, of Douglas.) Century, Oct., 1912.

Baker, R. S. — Capture, Death and Burial of J. Wilkes Booth.
McClure's, May, 1.S97.

Barnes, J. S. — With Lincoln from Washington to Richmond
in 1865. Appleton's Mag., May and June, 1907.

Bates, D. H. — Lincoln in the Telegraph Ofiice. Century, v. 52,

p. 123, 290, 3G4, G12, 765.
Carpenter, F. B. — How Lincoln was Nominated. Century,

V. 2, p. 853.
Dana, C. A. — Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet. ISIcClure's, April,

1898.
Davis, J. M. — Origin of the Lincoln Rail. Century, v. 38,

p. 271.
French's Statue of Lincoln. Century, March, 1912.

Gilder, R. W. — Lincoln the Leader. (22 portraits.) Century,

Feb., 1909.
Gilbert, Ariadne — The Matterhorn of Men. St. Nicholas,

Feb. and March, 1913.
Grover, Leonard — Lincoln's Interest in the Theatre. Century,

v. 55, p. 943.
Hay, John — Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln.

(Port, with "Tad".) Century, v. 19, p. 33.

Hill, F. T. — The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Century, Nov.,

1908.
Hill, F. T. — Lincoln the Lawyer. Century, v. 49, p. 286-939.

Kaine, T. L. — Lincoln as a Boy Knew Him. Century, v. 63,
p. 72.

Mabie, H. W. — Lincoln as a Literary Man. (Port, and fac-
simile, Gettysburg Address.) Outlook, Feb. 5, 1898.

McClure, A. K. — Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief. McClure's,

Feb., 1895.
MoClure, A. K. — The Night at Harrisburg, McClure's, June,

1895.
Mason, V. L. — Four Lincoln Conspiracies. (29 illus. and

port.) Century, v. 29, p. 889.

Moffett, Cleveland — How Allan Pinkerton Thwarted the First
Plot to Assassinate Lincoln. McClure's, Nov., 1894.

Nicolay, John G. and John Hay— Abraham Lincoln: A His-
tory. Century, Nov., 18S6, to v. 17, p. 561 (v. 11-17).

Shepard, J. A. — Lincoln's Assassination Told by an Eye-witness.

Century, v. 55, p. 918.
Stedman, E. C. — The Hand of Lincoln. Poem. (Picture of

cast made by Volk.) Century, v. 11, p. 248.

Tarbell, Ida M. — Abraham Lincoln: Early Life. McClure's,
Nov., 1895, to June, 1S96.

Tarbell, Ida. M. — Death of Abraham Lincoln. McClure's,
Aug., 1899.

Tarbell, Ida M. — Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclama-
tion. McClure's, April, 1899.

Tarbell, Ida M. — Lincoln and the Soldiers. McClure's, June,
1899.

Tarbell, Ida M. — Lincoln as a Lawyer. McClure's, July, 1896.

Tarbell, Ida M. — The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. McClure's,

Oct., 1896.
Tarbell, Ida M. — Lincoln's Great Victory in 1864. McClure's,

July, 1899.
Tarbell, Ida M. — Lincoln's Method of Dealing ■nith Men.

McClure's, March, 1899.
Tarbell, Ida M. — Lincoln's Search for a Man. McClure's,

May, 1899.
Tarbell, Ida M. — Later Life of Lincoln. 1. Mr. Lincoln as

President-elect. (Port.) McClure's, Dec, 1S9S.
Tarbell, Ida M. — Lincoln's Nomination in 1860. McClure's,

Nov., 1896.
Tarbell, Ida M. — Some Great Portraits of Lincoln. McClure's,

Feb., 1898.
Van Rensselaer, M. G. — St. Gauden's Statue of Lincoln. Cen-
tury, V. 13, p. 37.
Volk, L. W. — The Lincoln Life-mask and How it was Made.

Century, v. 1, p. 223.
Weik, J. W. — Lincoln as a Lawyer. Century, v. 46, p. 279.

Weik, J. W. — Lincoln's Vote for Vice-President, 1856. (Lin-
coln head by Gutzon Borglum.) Century, June, 1908.

FACE TO FACE WITH LINCOLN.

August 12 (1804) — I see the President almost
every day, as I liappcn to live where he passes to
or from his lodgings out of town. He never sleeps
at the White House during the hot season, but has
qvartcrs at a healthy location some three miles
north of the city, the Soldiers' Home, a United
States military establishment. I saw him this
morning about 8.50 coming in to business, riding
on Vernon Avenue near L Street. He always has
a company of twenty-fi\-c or thirty cavalry with
sabres drawn and held upright over their shoulders.
They say this guard was against his personal wish,
but he let his counselors have their way. The party
makes no show in uniform or horses. Mr. Lincoln
on the saddle generally rides a good-sized, easy-
going gray horse, is dressed in plain black, somewhat
rusty and dusty, wears a black stiff hat, and looks
about as ordinary in attire, etc., as the commonest
man. A lieutenant, with yellow stripes, rides at
his left, and following behind, two by two, come the
cavalrj^men, in their yellow striped jackets. They
are generally going at a slow trot, as that is the pace
set them by the one they wait upon. The sabres
and accoutrements clank, and the entirely unorna-
mental cortege, as it trots toward Lafayette Square,
arouses no sensation, only some curious stranger
stops and gazes. I see very plainly Abraham
Lincoln's dark brown face, with the deep-cut lines,
the eyes always look to me with a deep latent sad-
ness in the expression. We have- got so that we
exchange bows, and very cordial ones. Sometimes
the President goes and comes in an open barouche.
The cavalry always accompany him with drawn
sabres. Often I notice as he goes out evenings —
and sometimes in the morning, when he returns
early — he turns off and halts at the large and hand-
some residence of the Secretary of War on K Street,
and holds conference there. If in his barouche, I
can see from my window he does not alight, but
sits in his vehicle, and JMr. Stanton comes out to
attend him. Sometimes one of his sons (Tad), a
boy of ten or twelve, accompanies him, riding at
his right on a pony. Earlier in the summer, I
occasionally saw the President and his wife, toward
the latter part of the afternoon, out in a barouche, on
a pleasure ride through the city. Mrs. Lincoln was
dressed in complete black, with a long crepe veil.
The equipage is of the plainest kind, only two horses,
and they nothing extra. Thej- once passed me
very close, and I saw the President in the face fully,
as they were moving slowly, ami his look, though
abstracted, happened to be directed steadily in my
eye. He bowed and smiled, but far beneath his
smile I noticed well the expression I have alluded to.
None of the artists or pictures have caught the deep,
though subtle and indirect expression of this man's
face. There is something else there. One of the
great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago
is needed.

— From Walt Whitman's Specimen Days.

THE WASHINGTON STATUE IN WALL
STREET.

By R. C. Low.

Immortal more than bronze, in bronze he stands,
Through all our tumult unperturbed, sedate;
Coming clear-eyed, out of the scorch of fate.

Rough reins and sword-hilts calloused in hi3 hands.

How large he looms beyond this troubled hill!
How, lost in balancings of life and death,
He heeds the flutter of his country's breath,

And bids, "I crave you, gentlemen, bo still!"

This was the man who stemmed through brutal seas
And broke the dreadful shadow of a throne;
Who supped with swords, and watched all night alone,

Far off, in some great silence, on hia knees.

WASHINGTON.

"No nobler figure ever stood in the forefront of
a nation's life. Washington was grave and cour-
teous in address; his manners were simple and
unpretending; his silence and the serene calmness
of his temper spoke of a perfect self-mastery. But
there was little in his outer bearing to reveal the
grandeur of soul, which lifts his figure, with all the
simple majesty of an ancient statue, out of the
smaller passions, the meaner impulses of the world
around him. What recommended him for com-
mand was simply his weight among his fellow-land-
owners of Virginia, ami the experience of war, which
he had gained by scr\ices in border contests with
the French and Indians, as well as in Braddock's
luckless expedition against Fort Duquesne. It
was only as the weary fight went on that the colo-
nists discovered, however slowly and imperfectly,
the greatness of their leader, his clear judgment,
his heroic endurance, his silence under rlifficulties,
his calmness in the hour of danger or defeat: the
patience with which he waited, the quickness and
hardness with which he struck, the lofty and serene
sense of duty that never swerved from its task
through resentment or jealousy, that never through
war or peace felt the touch of a meaner ambition,
that knew no aim save that of guiding the freedom
of his fellow-countrymen, and no personal longing
save that of returning to his own fireside when their
freedom was secured."

- — John Richard Green.

ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE ARTICLES ABOUT
GEORGE WASHINGTON.

(A source of good pictures for mounting.)

Armstrong, William, and E. L. Rogers — Some New Washington

Relics. Century, May, 1890.
Baker, A. G. — The Preservation of Mt. Vernon. Century,

V. 57, p. 482.
Baker, A. G. — ^Restoration of Mt. Vernon. Munsey's, Sept.,

1905.
Bowen, C. W. — A French Officer with Washington and Ro-

chambeau. Century, v. 51, p. 531.
Bowen, C. W. — -The Inauguration of AVashington. Century,

April, 1889.
Carne, W. F. — Washington as a Burgher. Harper's, Feb.,

18S0.
Clevfeland, E. R. — Archibald Robertson and his Portraits of

the Washingtons. Century, Jlay, 1890.

December, 1799-1899. (French's Statue, p. 199.) Century,

Dec, 1899, p. 318.
Dennis, J. U. — Last Portrait of Washington and the Painter

of It. Century, Feb., 1904.
Hamilton, S. M. — First and Last Writings of Washington.

(Facsimiles.) Century, Feb., 1898.

Harrison, C. C.^Home and Haunts of Washington. Century,
Nov., 1887.

Harrison, C. C. — -Washington at Mt. Vernon .-Vfter the Revo-
lution. Century, April, 1SS9.

Harrison, C. C.^Washington in New York in 1789. Century,
April, 1889.

Hart, C. H. — .\n Unpublished Portrait of Washington. (C. W.
Peale.) McClure's, Feb., 1S97, p. 112.

Hart, C. H. — Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Men. 1. George
Washington. Century, v. 41, p. 509.

Hart, C. H.— Life Portraits of George Washington. (30.)
McClure's, Feb., 1897.

Hart, C. H. — Original Portraits of Washintgon. Century,
AprU, 1889.

Hart, C. H. — Original Portraits of Washington. Century,
v. 21, p. 593.

Hemstreet, C. M. — Washington in New York. Outlook, v. 70,
p. 300.

Herbert, Leila — The First American: His Homes and His

Households. Harper's, Sept., 1899, to Dec, 1899.
Herrick, S. B. — Mount Vernon as It la. Century, Nov., 1887.
Howells, W. D. — Glimpse of the English Waslungton Countrj'.

Harper's, April, 1906.
Hunt, Gaillard — A Christmas at Mount Vernon. (Colored

picture.) Century, Dec, 1908.
Kozlowski, W. M. — A Visit to Mt. Vernon a Century Ago.

Part of the diary of the Polish poet, J. V. Niemcewicz.

Century, v. 41, p. 510.
Latrobe, B. H. — Through Virginia to Mt. Vernon. Extracts

from Diary and Sketches, 1796. Booklovers' Mag., July,

1905.
Lear, Tobias — The Last Days of George Washington. (St.

Memin port.) McCIure's, Feb., 1898.
Leupp, F. E. — The Old Garden at Mt. Vernon. (Colored

pictures.) Century, May, 1906.
McMaster, J. B. — Washington and the French Craze of '93.

(Howard Pyle.) Harper's, April, 1897.
McMaster, J. B. — Washington's Inauguration (Howard Pyle.)

Harper's, April, 1SS9.
Mt. Vernon in Washington's Time. Plan made 1787. Cen-
tury, May, 1906.
Phillips, M. L. — Recollections of Washington and His Friends

as Preserved in the Family of Gen. Nathanael Greene.

Century, v. 33, p. 363, Jan., 1898.
Pickering, H. G., ed. — .^.n Unpublished Autograph Narrative

by ^Washington. The Braddock Campaign. (Howard

Pyle pictures.) Scribner's, May, 1893.
Potter, H. C— The Graves of Three Washington's. Century,

V. 51, p. 509.
Taylor, W. C. — Contemporary Portraits of Washington.

Booklovers' Mag., Feb., 1905.
Washington, Ella B.— The Mother and Birthplace of Wash-
ington. Century, 21, p. 830.
Wilson, Woodrow — George Wasjiington. (Howard Pyle

pictures.) Harper's, v. 92, p. 1^'J, to v. 93, p. 843.

A FEW GRADED SELECTIONS FOR READING
ON LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY.

In Class Libraries.

FOURTH GRADE.

Baldwin — The Sympathy of Abraham Lincoln. In American

Book of Golden Deeds.
Brooks — A Boy of the Backwoods. In True Story of Abraham

Lincoln, chap. 2.

FIFTH GRADE.

In Pioneers of the Missis-

In Children's Life of
and President. In

McMurry — Lincoln's Early Life.

sippi Valley, chap. 10.
Putnam — Emancipation of the Slaves.

Lincoln, pp. 202-209.
Tappan — Abraham Lincoln; Pioneer

American Hero Stories.

SIXTH GRADE.

Brooks — At Lincoln's Home. In Century Book of Famous

Americans.
Chittenden — Lincoln and the Sleeping Sentinel.
Coffin — Lincoln at the Five Points Mission. In Abraham

Lincoln, p. 179.
Moores — A Strange Education. In Life of Abraham Lincoln

for Boys and Girls, chap. 5.
Stoddard — The Rail-splitter. In The Boy Lincoln, chap. 14.

SEVENTH GRADE.

Morgan — Lincoln and His Children. In Abraham Lincoln,

Boy and Man, chap. 27.
Andrews — Counsel Assigned.
Greene — With Abraham Lincoln. In A Lincoln Conscript,

chap. 9.
Butterworth — Examination Day at Crawford's School. In

the Boyhood of Lincoln, chap. 7.

EIGHTH GRADE.

Brooks— The Clary Grove Boys. In Abraham Lincoln, p. 51.
Curtis — Lincoln in the AVhite House. In The True Abraham

Lincoln, chap. 7.
Nott — Lincoln's Cooper Institute Speech. In Putnam,

Abraham Lincoln, p. 215.
Andrews — Perfect Tribute.

Eggleston — Light in a Dark Place. In The Graysons, chap. 27.
Tarbell — He Knew Lincoln.

THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN.

At times beh/nd a desk he sits.

At times about the room he flits —

Folks interrupt his perfect case

By asking (Questions such as these: —
"How tall -sfas prehistoric man?"
"How old, I pray, was Sister Ann?"
"What should one do if cats have fits?"
"What woman first invented mitts?"
"Who said, 'To labor is to pray?"
"How much did Daniel Lambert weigh?"
"Don't you admire E. P. Roe?"
"What is the fare to Kokomo?"
"Have you the life of Sairy Gamp?"
"Can you lend me a postage stamp?"
"Have you the rimes of Edward Lear?"
"What wages do they give you here?"
"What dictionary is the best?"
"Did Brummcl wear a satin vest?"
"How do you spell 'anemic,' please?"
"What is a Gorgonzola cheese?" •
"Who ferried souls across the StjTC?"
"What is the square of 96?"
"Are oysters good to eat in March?"
"Are green bananas full of starch?"
"Where is that book I used to see?"
"I guess you don't remember me?"
"Ou est, m'sie, la Grande Larousse?"
"Do you say 'two spot' or 'the deuce' ?"
"Come, find my book — why make a row?"
"A red one — can't you find it now?"
"Please, which is right, to 'lend' or 'loan' 7"
"Say, mister, where'a the telephone?"
"How do you use this catalogue?"
"Oh, hear that noisel Is that my dog?"
"Have you a book called 'Shapes of Fear' 7"
"You mind if I leave baby here?"

The Secret Book.

GRADED SELECTIONS FOR READING ON

WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.

FOURTH GRADE.

Baldwin — The Young Surveyor. In Four Great Americans,

p. 23.
Blaisdell and Ball — Bessie Brandon's Unexpected Guest. In

American History Story Book.
Brooks — Why the Boy Who Wished to be a SaUor Became a

Surveyor. In True Story of George Washington, chap. 2.
Coe — The Youth of George Washington. In Founders of Our

Country. i

Came — A New Leaf from Washington's Boy Life. In Colonial

Stories from St. Nicholas.

FIFTH GRADE.

Cleveland — Our Hero of Heroes. In Stories of Brave Old

Times, p. 99.
Cooke — Washington in the Wilderness. In Stories of the Old

Dominion, chaps. 5, 6.
Butterworth — Christmas at Greenway Court. In Boys of

Greenway Court, chap. 9.

SIXTH GRADE.

Harrison — Washington at Mt. Vernon. In Barstow, A New

Nation.
Coffin — Washington at Trenton. In Boys of 76, chap. H.
Lodge — George Washington. In Roosevelt and Lodge. Hero

Tales from American History.

SEVENTH GRADE.

Irving and Fiske — Valley Forge. In Washington and His
Country, p. 331.

Scudder — Under the Old Elm. In George Washington,
chap. 15.

Seawell — Virginia Cavalier.

Hill — Peace and Public Service. In On the Trail of Wash-
ington, chap. 29.

EIGHTH GRADE.

Johnston — George Washington. In Leading American Sol-
diers.

Van Tyne — Washington; First in War, First in Peace. In
Stepping Stones of American History, p. 307.

Mitchell — In the Presence of Washington. In Hugh WjTine,
V. 1, p. 300-302.

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