FOREVER FREE. By Honore Willsie Morrow. (Cape. 7s. 6d.)—Abraham Lincoln
is the hero of this story. Judged merely as a novel, it is not wholly successful. But as history in a light and palatable form it cannot too highly be praised. We do not need the long bibliography at the end to assure us that Mrs. Morrow has thoroughly mastered her facts. Her mind is obviously saturated with the events and atmosphere of her period, which covers Lincoln's career from his entry into White House until his signing of the decree of emancipation. The domestic as well as the public life of Lincoln is described against a social background admirably sketched in ; the characters of his wife, of General McLellan, of William Russell, the English war correspondent, and of Miss Ford, the beautiful arch-spy, are, among many others, convincingly drawn ; and, best of all, the personality of Lincoln himself, triumphing patiently through his simplicity over the forces of intrigue, emerges in its full grandeur.
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