Lincoln, God's best gift to America! / by Dr. Geo. L. Knapp. -- Unpublished diary of Lincoln's navy secretary: private records of Gideon Welles give much inside history, intimate accounts of cabinet meetings and the personal bickerings of the leaders of the nation. -- Lincoln first talked of freedom of slaves riding to a funeral, mentioned subject to Welles and Seward, who were in the carriage, and asked their opinion. --Four women who helped mold Lincoln's character: filled with high aim by unlettered love of his "angel mother," born in log cabin and taken into wilderness as a child, he early was inured to hardship and toil. -- Girl who first won heart died ere he could claim her at altar, "I'll wed none but a president," his bride had vowed, bridegroom quailed when fateful day came, but married later. -- Roosevelt's estimate of Lincoln / by Theodore Roosevelt in American Review of Reviews. -- The love in Lincoln's nature / by president-elect William H. Taft in Cosmopolitan Magazine. -- Lincoln wisdom combined with wit in anecdotes: Grant's canal efforts compared to "fizzle," once forcibly ejected cashiered Army officer who made charge of injustice when he refused to act. -- Loud voiced youth is compared to whistle, praised McClellan as an admirable engineer but deplored his talent for the management of stationary engines. -- Lincoln was a Christian / by Rev. Edgar de Witt Jones. -- Lincoln a military genius, though man of peace: dissension on all sides faced the president-elect, South an arrogant and martial aristocracy, North seamed, none knew how deep, by discordant factions. -- Rock against self-seeking intrigues by his generals, patiently tried man after man until found Grant's iron will and dogged pertinacity. -- Lincoln, the great commoner / by Edwin Markham. -- Lincoln's assassination greatest of tragedies: staged by an actor in theater to mimic the death of Caesar. -- Conspiracy to kidnap president a failure, but murder succeeds. -- Lincoln's autobiography in his own handwriting [illustration]. -- Eyewitness story of Lincoln-Douglas debate: dues of giant minds before vast crowds graphically depicted, polished Senator master of diction, but his opponent the more convincing. -- One question a trap that gave presidency to the rail splitter, Douglas alienates South and wins toga, but loses higher position. -- Big celebration in Denver. -- Boyhood lesson in duty. -- A gallery of Lincoln likenesses

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