" ...  The author’s pages abound, too, with illustrations of the best kind of historical work, that of unearthing hidden sources of information and employing them, not after the modern style of historical writing, in a mere report, but with the true artistic method, in a well-digested narrative....  If Mr. McMaster finishes his work in the spirit and with the thoroughness and skill with which it has begun, it will take its place among the classics of American literature.”—­Christian Union.

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New York:  D. APPLETON & CO., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN:  The True Story of a Great Life.  By WILLIAM H. HERNDON and JESSE W. WEIK.  With numerous Illustrations.  New and revised edition, with an introduction by HORACE WHITE.  In two volumes. 12mo.  Cloth, $3.00.

This is probably the most intimate life of Lincoln ever written.  The book, by Lincoln’s law-partner, William H. Herndon, and his friend Jesse W. Weik, shows us Lincoln the man.  It is a true picture of his surroundings and influences and acts.  It is not an attempt to construct a political history, with Lincoln often in the background, nor is it an effort to apotheosize the American who stands first in our history next to Washington.  The writers knew Lincoln intimately.  Their book is the result of unreserved association.  There is no attempt to portray the man as other than he really was, and on this account their frank testimony must be accepted, and their biography must take permanent rank as the best and most illuminating study of Lincoln’s character and personality.  Their story, simply told, relieved by characteristic anecdotes, and vivid with local color, will be found a fascinating work.

“Truly, they who wish to know Lincoln as he really was must read the biography of him written by his friend and law-partner, W.H.  Herndon.  This book was imperatively needed to brush aside the rank growth of myth and legend which was threatening to hide the real lineaments of Lincoln from the eyes of posterity.  On one pretext or another, but usually upon the plea that he was the central figure of a great historical picture, most of his self-appointed biographers have, by suppressing a part of the truth and magnifying or embellishing the rest, produced portraits which those of Lincoln’s contemporaries who knew him best are scarcely able to recognize.  There is, on the other hand, no doubt about the faithfulness of Mr. Herndon’s delineation.  The marks of unflinching veracity are patent in every line.”—­New York Sun.

  “Among the books which ought most emphatically to have been written
  must be classed ‘Herndon’s Lincoln,’”—­Chicago Inter-Ocean.