McClures Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896

McClure's Magazine, March, 1896, Vol. VI.,?by Various

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McCLURE'S MAGAZINE
MARCH, 1896.
VOL. VI. NO. 4.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Ida M. Tarbell. Lincoln Is Admitted to the Bar. Lincoln in the Tenth Assembly of Illinois. The Removal of the Capital to Springfield. Lincoln's First Reported Speech. Abraham Lincoln's First Protest Against Slavery. Social Life in Vandalia in 1836 and 1837. Lincoln Moves to Springfield. Lincoln's Position in Springfield. THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF. By Rudyard Kipling. A CENTURY OF PAINTING. By Will H. Low. CY AND I. By Eugene Field. A YOUNG HERO. By John Hay.
CHAPTERS
FROM A LIFE. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. LOST YOUTH. By R.L. Stevenson. THE DIVIDED HOUSE. By Julia D. Whiting. SCIENTIFIC KITE-FLYING. By Cleveland Moffett. How to Make a Scientific Kite. How to Send Up a Kite. Runaway Tandems. The Lifting Power of Kites. The Meteorological Use of Kites. The Highest Flight Ever Made by a Kite. Drawing Down Electricity by a Kite-string. The Use of Kites in Photography. Possible Use of Kites in War. A DRAMATIC POINT. By Robert Barr. EDITORIAL NOTES. "Justice, Where Art Thou?" "A Disgrace to Civilization." The Real Lincoln. Lincoln in 1860--J. Henry Brown's Journal.
ILLUSTRATIONS
LINCOLN IN 1860. LINCOLN IN 1860. EBENEZER PECK. MEMBERS OF THE SANGAMON SOCIETY DELEGATION IN THE TENTH ILLINOIS ASSEMBLY. ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY. LINCOLN IN 1863 OR 1864. FRONTISPIECE OF "ALTON TRIALS," A SMALL VOLUME PUBLISHED IN 1838. STUART AND LINCOLN'S PROFESSIONAL CARD. OFFICE CHAIR FROM STUART AND LINCOLN'S LAW OFFICE. STUART AND LINCOLN'S LAW OFFICE. A STAGE-COACH ADVERTISEMENT, 1834. MARY L. OWENS. LINCOLN AND HIS SON THOMAS, FAMILIARLY KNOWN AS "TAD." PAGE FROM STUART AND LINCOLN'S FEE BOOK. OLD SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. WILLIAM BUTLER. INVITATION TO A SPRINGFIELD COTILLION PARTY. MAP OF ILLINOIS. THE WAVE "WENT OUT IN THREE SURGES, MAKING A CLEAN SWEEP OF A BOAT." THE "DIMBULA" TAKING CARGO FOR HER FIRST VOYAGE. "AN UNUSUALLY SEVERE PITCH ... HAD LIFTED THE BIG THROBBING SCREW NEARLY TO THE SURFACE." THE GARROTED MAN. FROM AN ETCHING BY GOYA. DEATH ON THE BATTLE-FIELD. FROM AN ETCHING BY GOYA. GOYA. FROM A PORTRAIT ETCHED BY HIMSELF. ST. JUSTINA AND ST. RUFINA. FROM A PAINTING BY GOYA. THE BLIND FIDDLER. FROM A PAINTING BY SIR DAVID WILKIE. CHOOSING THE WEDDING GOWN. FROM A PAINTING BY WILLIAM MULREADY. CONTRARY WINDS. FROM A PAINTING BY THOMAS WEBSTER. SANCHO PANZA IN THE APARTMENT OF THE DUCHESS. THE RAFT OF THE "MEDUSA." FROM A PAINTING BY G��RICAULT. INGRES. FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED BY HIMSELF. DELACROIX. FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED BY HIMSELF IN 1837. A PORTRAIT OF INGRES, DRAWN IN ROME IN 1816. APOTHEOSIS OF HOMER. FROM A PAINTING BY INGRES. THE SEIZURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY THE CRUSADERS. DANTE AND VIRGIL CROSSING THE LAKE WHICH SURROUNDS THE INFERNAL CITY OF DIT��. HENRY H. MILLER, A MEMBER OF THE ORGINAL COMPANY OF ELLSWORTH ZOUAVES. ELLSWORTH IN THE SPRING OF 1861. ELLSWORTH IN 1860. FRANK E. BROWNELL, WHO KILLED THE ASSASSIN OF COLONEL ELLSWORTH. THE DEATH OF COLONEL ELLSWORTH. THE MARSHALL HOUSE, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA. COLONEL ELLSWORTH AND A GROUP OF MILITIA OFFICERS. "THE OLD BRICK ACADEMY," PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ANDOVER, MASSACUSETTS. ABBOT ACADEMY, ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS. "THE STONE BUILDING," PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS. THE HOUSE IN ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS, CONTAINING THE SCHOOL CALLED "THE NUNNERY." HENRY MILLS ALDEN, EDITOR OF "HARPER'S MAGAZINE." ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN. "THE DOCTOR DON'T SEEM TO THINK I SHALL TUCKER IT OUT MUCH LONGER." THE DIVIDED HOUSE. "AS ARMIDA SAT ON THE BENCH UNDER THE OLD RUSSET APPLE-TREE, ..." EVENING IN THE DIVIDED KITCHEN. "LOOKING BEFORE THEM THEY COULD SEE BOTH HUSBAND AND WIFE MOTIONLESS IN THE ROAD." HARGRAVE LIFTED SIXTEEN FEET FROM THE GROUND BY A TANDEM OF HIS BOX-KITES. FRANKFORT STREET. PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW FROM A KITE. FRANKFORT STREET. PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW FROM A KITE. (ANOTHER VIEW.) THE EDDY TAILLESS KITE. THE HARGRAVE BOX-KITE. NEW YORK, EAST RIVER, BROOKLYN, AND NEW YORK BAY, FROM A KITE. PHOTOGRAPHING FROM A KITE-LINE. CITY HALL PARK AND BROADWAY FROM A KITE. MURRAY AND WARREN STREETS, NEW YORK CITY, FROM A KITE. KITE-DRAWN BUOY. DIRIGIBLE KITE-DRAWN BUOY. THE KITE-BUOY IN SERVICE. "MY GOD!--YOU WERE RIGHT--AFTER ALL."

[Illustration: LINCOLN IN 1860.--HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.
From an ambrotype taken