FICTION Altsheler, J. A. "IN CIRCLING CAMPS" D. Appleton & Company.. ....$1.75 "From the election of Lincoln to the surrender of Lee: Gettysburg is a big battle piece." Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman "THE PERFECT TRIBUTE" Charles Scribner's Sons. Boards......... -Baker. .$0.75 "A wonderful story of Lincoln and his Gettysburg speech, one of the greatest stories of recent years." Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman "THE COUNSEL ASSIGNED". Charles Scribner's Sons. Boards....... -N. Y. Times. $0.75 As Mrs. Andrews presented Abraham Lincoln, the President, in her famous "The Perfect Tribute," so now she presents Lincoln, the young Lawyer. She shows him turning his back on a great personal opportunity in answer to a request for help from those who had helped him; shows him in court, shrewd, rugged, eloquent, his own ambition submerged in the defense of a boy on trial for murder, whose parents had once given him a home. Babcock, Bernie "THE SOUL OF ANN RUTLEDGE" J. B. Lippincott Company.. .....$1.75 The story of Abraham Lincoln's romantic attachment for Ann Rutledge and its moulding power on his after-life is now for the first time adequately told in this remarkable novel. Bacheller, Irving A. "A MAN FOR THE AGES" The Bobbs-Merrill Company.. Same DeLuxe edition. Boards...... $2.00 5.00 7.50 "A Man for the Ages is an inspiring sort of book to read, in addition to being interesting: and it does make Abrabam Lincoln an approachable, near-at-hand person." Bacheller, Irving A. "EBEN HOLDEN: A TALE OF THE NORTH COUN TRY". Popular copyright edition Grosset and Dunlap..... .....$1.00 A novel of life in the Adirondacks fifty years ago, introducing Horace Greeley and Abraham Lincoln. Interest centers in the faithful old servant, Eben Holden, who is lovingly drawn. Life in the woods and fields is depicted with no little charm. Bullard, F. L. "TAD AND HIS FATHER" Little Brown & Company...... A study of the Home Life of Abraham Lincoln. Chittenden, Lucius E. "LINCOLN AND THE SLEEPING SENTINEL" Harper & Brothers.... -Baker. .......$1.00 ......$0.75 This is the original story. The main incident of it has been told with varying details in many versions. This is the telling of the deed by one who shared in the doing. "A painstaking study of the Civil War and its causes (1860-1865) scene chiefly St. Louis. The fierce political movements of the time personified in a representative set of characters. Lincoln, Grant and Sherman appear; while the lovers are a Yankee and a Southern Lady. -Baker. Daviess, Maria Thompson "THE MATRIX" The Century Company... ..$1.75 A charming, colorful romance of the meeting, the courtship, and the marriage of Abraham Lincoln's father and that almost fabulous figure, Nancy Hanks. Dixon, Thomas "THE SOUTHERNER: A ROMANCE OF THE REAL LINCOLN" D. Appleton & Company.. The Same-Popular Copyright Series Grosset & Dunlap. ...$2.00 1.00 A novel that contains as accurate and intimate pictures as have been drawn of the heartrending struggle of Abraham Lincoln to save the nation. In it the humble, lion-hearted man is carried from a barefoot boy to the White House. Richly dramatic; and the full tragedy of the scene is vividly presented. Eggleston, Edward "THE GRAYSONS: A STORY OF ILLINOIS" The Century Company... ....$1.90 A detailed picture of the turbulent life of the pioneers, scene, Illinois (about 1850). Abraham Lincoln is introduced as counsel in a murder trial. He convicts the leading witness of perjury, and brings the guilt home to him.-Baker. Gerry, Mrs. Margarita Spalding "THE TOY-SHOP" Harper & Brothers... ....$0.60 A story of Lincoln. The great man's burdened heart finds comfort in visits to an old toy-maker, and inspiration from a regiment of toys and their modest, firm-standing captain. A wonderful study of Lincoln the man-wise, human, and reverently tender. Greene, Homer "A LINCOLN CONSCRIPT" Houghton Mifflin Company..... ........$1.75 A stirring story of a Pennsylvania boy during the Civil War and of the result of the meeting between his father and President Lincoln. Grierson, Francis "THE VALLEY OF SHADOWS" John Lane Company... ....$1.50 "The Valley of Shadows" deals with those wonderful days in Illinois before the Civil War when the people were preparing to elect Lincoln to the Presidency and a new era was dawning in America. It forms a most remarkable series of memories, full of delicately wrought impressions selected and blended with rare literary skill, and has all the movement of a fascinating and realistic romance. Miss Singmaster has lived all her life in Gettysburg, and she has combined her intimate knowledge with her gift for powerful narrative to tell not only of soul-stirring events of the actual fight but also many incidents that grew from it in the fifty years aftermath. Steiner, Edward A. "UNCLE JOE'S LINCOLN" Fleming H. Revell Company...... ........$1.25 Few books from Prof. Steiner's facile pen have gripped the American heart more than will this true story of his boyhood. A true story of delightful episodes that move every patriotic American to greater zeal and greater service. Tarbell, Ida M. "HE KNEW LINCOLN" The MacMillan Company. .$1.00 "He Knew Lincoln" portrays the human traits of Lincoln's character. It shows his humor, illustrated in the famous story of the Socks, his great friendliness, and the sorrow and loneliness which encompassed him in the midst of his enormous activity, because of the terrible responsibility of his position. Tarbell, Ida M. "FATHER ABRAHAM" The MacMillan Company...... .......$1.00 "Father Abraham' depicts Lincoln as the Father of the Union Army, the man who was so interested in the boys in blue that he spent much of his time in associating with them, and knew more of the army than any general. Lincoln's conception of the war and his idea of duty in connection with it are splendidly brought out. Willsie, Honore "BENEFITS FORGOT" Frederick A. Stokes Company... $1.00 "Benefits Forgot." A story of Lincoln and Mother Love. A true story of a young army surgeon, for whose education his mother had made great sacrifices. How President Lincoln learns of the young man's neglect of his mother, and brings him to realize his ingratitude, makes a deeply touching story. Dixon, Thomas POETRY AND DRAMA "A MAN OF THE PEOPLE"-A drama of Abraham Lincoln D. Appleton & Company... ...$1.75 A forceful picture of harassed, big-hearted and kindly Abraham Lincoln. Drinkwater, John "ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A PLAY" - with an introduction by Arnold Bennett Houghton Mifflin Company. Boards.. ..$1.25 "We are shown Lincoln just as we should like to imagine him, and as we believe he was rugged, indifferent to appearance, tender-hearted, humorous, sensitive to the feelings of others, and sympathetic with every noble passion; but firm in resolve, and immovable from the line which once he has decided upon as just or magnanimous." -Manchester Guardian. Snider, Dr. Denton J. "THE LINCOLNIAD" - A National Epos in Four Parts. The William Harvey Miner Company, Inc. Here the attempt is made to construe the whole Lincoln as the American hero of the new national Epos in four different, yet interrelated books each of which turns upon a pivotal crisis of his life, wherein is specially emphasized his inner evolution amid the clash of outer events. 1. LINCOLN IN THE BLACKHAWK WAR The first important round of incidents (in 1832) to which Lincoln himself looked back as formative of his career was the Black Hawk War. Elected Captain, sworn into service by Jefferson Davis, mustered |