"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
RUTLEDGE.--ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF AGE.

_Embodying special studies in Lincoln's life at New Salem by J. McCan
Davis._