SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading les notice such Books of the week as here not been reserved for review in other forms.] • Abraham Lincoln, the Boy and the Man. By James Morgan. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Morgan has already given to the world a book with a similar title about President Roosevelt. We do not see that he tells us anything new about Lincoln ; but he certainly emphasises various things that we already know, the hardships and narrowness of his early life, the steadfastness with which he set himself to overcome obstacles and hindrances, and to enlarge his horizon of life, within and without, and, not least, the extraordinary rapidity with which he rose at the last. There is something very hard to understand in the history of the events which made him the Republican candidate for the Presidency. A book about Lincoln is, we might say, always welcome; when carefully and sympathetically written it is a thing to be highly appreciated.
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