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Mr. Carl Sandburg was the man of all men to

write a life of Abraham Lincoln (Cape, 2 vols. £2 2s.) during the Eman- cipator's prairie years, for he is of the prairies himself and something of an emancipator also, as all poets are. These important volumes are more than biography : Lincoln is the supreme type of the men who made the Union what it is to-day ; through him an epoch lives again. Mr. Sandburg, we imagine, has made a work that will live. It shall be reviewed later.

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