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[Footnote 994: Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, pp.

126-127.]

[Footnote 995: Arnold, Lincoln, p. 201, note.]

[Footnote 996: The speech was printed in full in the New York _Tribune_, May 1, 1861.]

[Footnote 997: The New York _Tribune_, June 13th, and the Philadelphia _Press_, June 14th, published this speech in full.]

[Footnote 998: Arnold, Lincoln, p. 193. See also his remarks in the Senate, January 3, 1861.]

Norman Hapgood's _biographies_

Ill.u.s.trated with portraits, fac similes, etc.

Abraham Lincoln--The Man of the People

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"Perhaps the best short biography that has yet appeared."--_Review of Reviews_.

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George Was.h.i.+ngton

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Mr. Owen Wister's _sketch of_

The Seven Ages of Was.h.i.+ngton

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23, 1907.

"Mr. Wister has succeeded in revealing a new Was.h.i.+ngton--a Was.h.i.+ngton who becomes a wholly lovable man without losing any of his dignity."--_Boston Herald_.

"In Mr. Wister's hands the Father of his Country is no frozen G.o.d. He steps out of the block of ice into which, as the author so well indicates, he was put for safekeeping after death. The book emphasizes the man side of Was.h.i.+ngton's character. The hero is in the background, and the result is a warm and very convincing picture which it is good to have."--_Philadelphia Public Ledger_.

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Theodore Roosevelt

The Boy and the Man

By JAMES MORGAN

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