New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-27

HIS LARoRlous BoYHoop.

law and Hay's abraham Lincoln " iu the forth
coming Century is fine portrait of the great Presi-
dent admirably engraved by l. johnson from an
original negative of 1860. The first illustrations
indicate that this part Of the work Will DO worthy
of the text. How valuable that text Is to be one
may find revealed in this first notable paper as well
as in the authors preface:
To write the this great American in such way "a to
relations to the times IN Which he en s the %so%
snrronpded has been the purpose authors
diligently pursued Tor many years We can say nothing
employed appreciate OF inadequate performance
only eai% for our Work ,Ss, we have devoted
S S %Ss U p%.p the ss S
have rejected no authentic facts essential TO cann sOs
TO crafty no unavowed objects subserve Ne have aimed
90 great Ss %an and sreai tune and stSOUsh
ss S we as M
promise there shall not be found line in all these
chap ers dictated by malice or unfarness
The following paragraphs from advance sheets
of the magazine give some taste of the quality OF
tins eagerly anticipated work:
THE Boys THIRST FOR EDuCATIoN.
Such sarah Bush could not be careless OF 80 I'M
made The best use Of the scan,y the
one Of those rars autobiography left behind him
There we sS so%e Schools SO called but no
ever reSuIed 81 ieTSee beyond ssr supposed
understand Latin happened soourn the neghoooi he
10 excite oSsg smGon az for But tie
nnfa nesn GSs 'ls'e h Tss f as means
the TCd love- wss for II. d% % sake wh a4S
often ten n ES sTs who he. %0 OF sf
little Leaning he Gysr M . r. ssIfd as s $s to
Gsas e0Oa' aa woods had borne themselves in
the light for which he longed lie learned hrst that
he might have an SeGo%P sSns his pay hs ag
enjoy the feeling which him; and Dna
Shs make k his SRy for S' Me IN @
tany from no 1--we Of mathematics but because It might cone
in Law in MOI ngeua
which bounded The horizon his contemporaries HID not
% Ss e sSad Saye 5oEe for S% & counting
nn s posy U crwor and swaney in ma
to less than ys"T IN all The schools rO wSl
logs distinguished FROM he more ri'loerac split Cg
by as light ss oq Mefa @1s @fs
keeping with Their primitive surroundings The pro
mem Of eSessu S o cpsS AfSr few months Of
desultcy instruction young Abraham knew all that these
passed. WITH one s@aney N s5G who taught at distance
Of walking doubtless Thomas Lincoln a waste Of
school
THE BOOKS HE READ.
questionable whether no lost anything by being
deprived OF the mintratos OF tho back woods dominica
When his ended his studies became tho chief pleasure
o. hts life all of his in which no
took delight knowing well enough that he born for
something letter Than tatIhe read wrote and phered in
nilies i9r books wer9 among W. sTst o. IN s re-
upon and no was certainly fortunate n te few books Of
to seoe a better handful Oh clscs youth
stances than The few Volumes he prned win nightly and
" me Pilgrims frosSSSs History o. the United st",es
an these he rea over and over III he knew them almost by
aSs He su would sit IN the twilight and ea eonsy
as long as he cona see he mse to 20 to DAVID urn4s
ana as boys IN cur DAY 90 the Ihee ~narsmeh vi me
copy WITH ePce eHrSs and og over o Te% until
pn r %0 at n ST" a Gs eone @ WOODEN ov With
and afthmetCal exercises which lie would
o. link Of a great p sd d battling year alter yea
asans, ms ev star wasting his INGENUITY upon DEVICES ana
pie appliances OF winch are nov offered gratis 10
The time left ms strength and already
lar beyond toie onay men oI ne %TSns MS 9pPohea
his EMPLOYERS day was over his own began
from would go the CUPBOARD piece
a, his h and read e picture may be lacking in grace
bnt its uthiuness beyond question The habit remained
was done ts gotesquc Western fashion," sitting on his
MS KINDLY NATURE.
differed little from that Of
dnary farmhand His strength and intelligence made
how o. iudt rene, ro him The Inc eo
others saved The heOf the town drunkard
s srs s as to M srn and Working over lin until he
rvved tbs curious ia,t tat is act OF common humanity
VS. o a. i ] M :, IN 1 XIV yeT
eccentrcty That he hated AMI pr aahe against cruelty to
rgheous wrath when boy asalnst me wanton murder OF
clay than Fellows, those wild aud snOrant
iS whH S eus i s his pafels AMI hseh his
sser Mrs Lnco n Two glrls ana boy Deni hanks the
tr carpenter Joseph wr whom Thomas Anco.n learned his
use who came from Kentucky several years alter the
s and Ti puI1 ~ Of Vonng AhraS Which Kent
L. ne. 90, amen Am f,ss hl ineo elements etery"scir
witt youth AMI confined in onicomeI cabin as was the
II happy household: brothers ami
good seactnei but al acSSwesng To very cary
supremacy goodness and oeveness OF their bg
a ltIt
eoS' gays s1Ng se y, r Il %nn cag
sy T sesy one %o9eT s 191ISnd can say Or Age
20 20 any thing asked ilnl His III M and mine
JOAN WHO As raised with Abe. good Joys, but
anus, say ec5 nov beng dead u Ape % sne Of %es SOY
sable ealeer sacred We see from childhood to
We eIai d early sln,sh,p Tor him He Tss
humanity one Of his enpoyes an ,a11lei ~ recent ms
ANU sno pay pay, Ue iy j." I is also renrie tat
c NM 1nss i y te eetS Of harvest dpert ns Ly
making OuricsIne speeches, worse than that cohc scr
exaspelun OF the farmer ills bud
r"s o and n wne od To- in and his Trends
the air o. S eir FROM his aro occss ona
and eui. in which ADian bore hs part accord ng to The
natural love o pace he resistant aud when he
"STst o IL But p" ne was Generous and acSe and some o
s best lest friends Mere those % whom ne S MAJ n en- s
Ious spectators calmly and critically chewing elr cuds in
der the shade spreading OAK at the edge OF the timber
YOUNG GIANT.
remarkably His mind slow III ac
question: his Of aud rhetoric improved
constantly 10 life a progress
ouy regular and sustained But there that about him
even al which might well justify his ad
miring prcsagng him unusual lie
every book lie could find and could spell down
who'd their photographed contests ny dnt OF
practice he hat acquired admirably clear and
serviceabe handwriting He occasionally asOunded ms com
paniOns such gmpss OF occult science as Aat e word
relatively stationary. lie wrote
and ciiCatiOn politics. OF
ch gentlemen standing who had been favored with
world can't beat it, one t"o of these compositions got
vastly increased The author local lame lie was
sls0 with larger and KIN Ter siri than
His and CaIaDllty OF discern
sides to "A remarkable even then, and
the admiration OF tOsO 10 whom such qualities were
unknown But perhaps after all the thing which gained and
liked his mastery his fellows was 10 great degree ms
tgantlc stature strength ms full Ill.,
and Gllrln o.