“The author has his own notion of what a biography should be, and it is simple enough.  The story should tell all, plainly and even bluntly.  Mr. Herndon is naturally a very direct writer, and he has been industrious in gathering material.  Whether an incident happened before or behind the scenes, is all the same to him.  He gives it without artifice or apology.  He describes the life of his friend Lincoln just as he saw it.”—­Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

  “A remarkable piece of literary achievement—­remarkable alike for
  its fidelity to facts, its fullness of details, its constructive
  skill, and its literary charm.”—­New York Times.

  “It will always remain the authentic life of Abraham
  Lincoln,”—­Chicago Herald.

  “The book is a valuable depository of anecdotes, innumerable and
  characteristic.  It has every claim to the proud coast of being the
  ‘true story of a great life.’”—­Philadelphia Ledger.

  “Will be accepted as the best biography yet written of the great
  President.”—­Chicago Inter-Ocean.

“Mr. White claims that, as a portraiture of the man Lincoln, Mr. Herndon’s work ‘will never be surpassed.’  Certainly it has never been equaled yet, and this new edition is all that could be desired.”—­New York Observer.

“The three portraits of Lincoln are the best that exist; and not the least characteristic of these, the Lincoln of the Douglas debates, has never before been engraved....  Herndon’s narrative gives, as nothing else is likely to give, the material from which we may form a true picture of the man from infancy to maturity,”—­The Nation.

APPLETONS’ CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.  Complete in six volumes, royal 8vo, containing about 800 pages each.  With sixty-one fine steel portraits and some two thousand smaller vignette portraits and views of birthplaces, residences, statues, etc.

APPLETONS’ CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, edited by General JAMES GRANT WILSON, President of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and Professor JOHN FISKE, formerly of Harvard University, assisted by over two hundred special contributors, contains a biographical sketch of every person eminent in American civil and military history, in law and politics, in divinity, in literature and art, in science and in invention.  Its plan embraces all the countries of North and South America, and includes distinguished persons born abroad, but related to American history.  As events are always connected with persons, it affords a complete compendium of American history in every branch of human achievement.  An exhaustive topical and analytical Index enables the reader to follow the history of any subject with great readiness.