Evening star., 1932-02-12
LINCOLN PENCIL
MARKS IN BOOK
Volume of Shakespeare in
Library Of Congress Re-
veaIS SoIace Found.

A glimpse into the intimate thoughts
of Abraham Lincoln during the dark
DAYS of the Civil War may be afforded
by discovery in the stacks of the Library
of Congress of marked copy of Shake
speare's plays which he borrowed and
kept at the White House for five months
from July to December, 1852.
The book has been located by Will
| liam Adams Slade, director of the Fol-
ger Shakespeare Library, and pencil
marks were found which presumably
were made by Lincoln himself, although
this cannot be stated with absolute
certainty.
Assuming the book actually was
marked up by Lincoln, it constitutes
an exceptionally valuable bit of Lin
colnalia. Presumably he made the pen
Gil marks in the margins subconsciously
as, musing in solitude after the turmoil
of worried day, he came upon verses
which reflected what was uppermost in
his own mind.
Reflect Intimate Thoughts.
The last passage marked may have
indicated presentirent of his death,
MIR. Slade points out.
| Among the passages noted with pencil
marks which might easily have reflected
the intimate thoughts of the war Presi-
dent. Mr.. Slade points out, are the
| following:
I hold the world but as the world,
Gratiano;
A stage where every man must play a
part,
And mine sad one.
Merchant of Venice, Act I, scene l,
| o. have passed a miserable night,
So full of fearful dreams. of ugly sights,
That, as am Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such night
Though 'twere to buy a world Of happy
days;
So full of dismal terror was the time.
| Richard III, Act 1, scene 4
Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing
hours,
Makes the night morning, and the noon
tide night.
Richard III, Act I, scene 4.
Verify.
I swear. It's better to be lowly born
| And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perk' up in clustering
! grief,
And wear a golden sorrow.
Henry VIII, Act II, scene 8.
Nay, then. farewell!
I have touch'd the highest point of all
my greatness;
! And, from that full meridian of my
+ glory.
I haste now to my setting. I shall fall
Like bright exhalation in the evening
! And no man see me more.
Henry VIII, Act III, scene 2.
Let me have men about me that are fat,
/ Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o
nights.
| Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry
look.
He thinks too much; such men are dam
Julius Caesar, Act I, scene 2.
Let's be sacrifcers, but not butchers,
Caius.
Julius Caesar, Act II, scene /.
Nay, but this dotage of our generals
O'erflows the measure; those his goodly
eyes.
That DER the files and musters of the
Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend,
| now turn
! The Office and devotion Of their view
Upon tawny front: his captains heart.
| Which in the scuffies of great fights
hath burst
The buckles on his breast, reneges all
temper,
And is become the bellows and the fan
| To cool a gipsy's lust.
Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, scene l.
Had it pleas'd Heaven
To try me with affliction; had they
raind
All kinds of sores and shames on my
bare head.
Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips.
Given to captivity me and my utmost
hopes,
I should have found in some place of
my soul
A drop of patience; but alas, to make me
The fixed figure for the time of scorn
To point his slow and moving finger att
-Othello, Act ", scene g.
Besides this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath
been
So clear in his great office, that his
virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet -tongud
against
The deep damnation of his taking off |!
Macbeth, Act I, scene Z.
Identity Undoubted.
There can be no doubt about the
identity of the volume, Mr.. Slade points