AUTHORITATIVE LITERATURE OF THE CIVIL WAR.

BY GEORGE LOWELL AUSTIN.


II.


THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, sixteenth
President of the United States: together with His State Papers,
including his Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations,
and the closing Scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J.
Raymond. To which are added Anecdotes and Personal Reminiscences of
President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter, with a steel portrait, and
other illustrations, 1 vol. octavo, pp. 808. New York: Derby and Miller,
1865.


During the Presidential canvass of 1864, the author of this volume
prepared a work upon the administration of President Lincoln. That
canvass resulted in the re-election of Mr. Lincoln, whose death occurred
soon after his second inauguration. As the editor of the _New York
Times_, Mr. Raymond possessed at the time ample facilities to prepare
such a book as was needed to interest the public in the life of one
whose work was at once as great as it was successful. Up to the day of
its publication, this book was the best and most authoritative that had
been published. Twenty years have since elapsed, and in many respects it
still maintains a just superiority and a historical value that cannot be