ferent from it would have been quite inconceivable. Sometimes his manner was very impassioned, and he seemed transfigured with his subject. Perspiration would stream from his face, and each particular hair would stand on end. Then the inspiration that possessed him took possession of his hearers also. His speaking went to the heart because it came from the heart. I have heard celebrated orators who could start thunders of applause without changing any man's opinion. Mr. Lincoln's eloquence was of the higher type, which produced conviction in others because of the conviction of the speaker himself. His listeners felt that he believed every word he said, and that, like Martin Luther, he would go to the stake rather than abate one jot or tittle of it. In such transfigured moments as these he was the type of the ancient Hebrew prophet as I/ learned that character at Sunday-school in my childhood.

That there were, now and then, electrical discharges of high tension in Lincoln's eloquence is a fact little remembered, so few persons remain who ever came within its range. The most remarkable outburst took place at the Bloomington Convention of May 29, 1856, at which the anti-Nebraska forces of Illinois were first collected and welded together as one party. Mr. John L. Scripps, editor of the Chicago Democratic Press, who was present-a man of gravity little likely to be carried off his feet by spoken words-said:

"Never was an audience more completely electrified by human eloquence. Again and again during its delivery they sprang to their feet and upon the benches and testified by long-continued shouts and the waving of hats how deeply the speaker had wrought upon their minds and hearts. It fused し the mass of hitherto incongruous elements into perfect homogeneity; and from that day to the present they have worked together in harmonious and fraternal union."

The speech of 1854 made so profound an impression on me that I feel under its spell to this day. It is known in history as Mr. Lincoln's Peoria speech. Although first delivered in Springfield on October 4, it was repeated twelve days later at Peoria. Mr. Lincoln did not use a scrap of paper on either occasion, but he wrote it out afterwards at the request of friends and published it in successive numbers of the weekly Sangamon Journal at Springfield. In like manner were the orations of Cicero preserved. In this way has been preserved for us the most masterly forensic utterance of the whole slavery controversy, as I think.

A SOUTHERN VIEW.

[From an address by Hon. Newton C. Blanchard, Governor of Louisiana, at Springfield Ill., Feb. 12, 1907.]

Let us here tonight take fresh hold on the fact that the war closed more than forty years ago.

As we look back over the decades of renewed national life which have elapsed since that critical time, we come to realize in the fullest, and point the world to the fact, that our system of government, tried in the crucible of civil war and reconstruction, did, indeed, emerge therefrom stronger than ever, not merely in the legal bonds guaranteeing a

union of inseparable States, but stronger than ever in the mutual understanding, good will and friendly feeling characterizing the people of the several sections, the one towards the other.

I come from that section whose economic and social order was overturned by that war, and whose material prosperity was wrecked by it. I come, nevertheless, to take part with you, here in the Capital City of his State, where he lived and where lie his sacred remains, in the anniversary celebration of the birth of the great leader on your side in that war.

I come to mingle with your own my tribute of admiration of him, and to voice what I conceive to be the South's present estimate of Abraham Lincoln, his life, character and achievements.

That estimate is so high that we of the South join with you of the North in placing him with Washington-at the forefront of the illustrious men whose lives and careers adorn the pages of American history.

BY HORACE WHITE.
[Lincolniana.]

The affection bestowed upon Abraham Lincoln by his countrymen is best shown by the amount of Lincolniana, or literature concerning him, which has been printed since his death, and which is increasing in volume from year to year. Like the word Shakespeariana it signifies a body of literature relating to an individual, of sufficient magnitude to be separately classified in the book market.

The number of known collectors of Lincolniana at the present time in the United States is nearly five hundred. Their collections consist of books, pamphlets, poems, sheet music, lithographs, portraits, medals, manuscripts and identifiable relics. Printed matter relating to the period in which Lincoln lived is not included in Lincoln bibliography unless it owes its origin to him as an individual. Thus, a history of the Civil war, or of the United States during the lifetime of Lincoln, would not be classed in that category.

The compiling of Lincoln bibliographies began very soon after his death. The first one, containing 231 titles of books and pamphlets, was published by William V. Spencer in Boston in 1865, all of the list being in the compiler's possession. In the following year John Russell Bartlett published a list of 300 titles of eulogies, sermons, orations and poems on Lincoln, all of which had been published after his death. In 1870 Andrew Boyd of Albany, N. Y., published a "Memorial Lincoln Bibliography" of 175 pages which contained his own collections of books, pamphlets and relics. These have since passed into possession of Major William H. Lambert of Germantown, Pa., a veteran of the civil war, who has added to it from time to time until it now embraces 1,200 bound volumes and pamphlets, and more than 100 autograph letters and documents of Lincoln, besides numerous relics and miscellany. Other important collections of Lincolniana are those of Mr. Judd Stewart of Plainfield, N. J., about 2,300 items, J. E. Burton of Milwaukee, Wis., 2,360 bound volumes and pamphlets, Charles W. McLellan of Champlain, N. Y., more than 5,000 items of various kinds.