The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln

Author of The Story of the American Flag, The Story of the Liberty Bell, The Story of the White House, The Story of Young George Washington, the Story of Young Benjamin Franklin, etc. Illustrated P H I L A D E L P H I A HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY
Copyright, 1915, by Howard E. Altemus Copyright, 1918, by Howard E. Altemus Printed in the United States of America

The boy or girl who reads to-day may know more about the real Lincoln than his own children knew. The greatest President's son, Robert Lincoln, discussing a certain incident in their life in the White House, remarked to the writer, with a smile full of meaning:
I believe you know more about our family matters than I do!
This is because all the world loves a lover —and Abraham Lincoln loved everybody. With all his brain and brawn, his real greatness was in his heart. He has been called the Great-Heart of the White House, and there is little doubt that more people have heard about him than there are who have read of the original Great-Heart in The Pilgrim's Progress.
Indeed, it is safe to say that more millions in the modern world are acquainted with the story of the rise of Abraham Lincoln from a poorly built log cabin to the highest place among the seats of the mighty, than are familiar with the Bible story of Joseph who arose and stood next to the throne of the Pharaohs.
Nearly every year, especially since the Lincoln Centennial, 1909, something new has been added to the universal knowledge of one of the greatest, if not the greatest man who ever lived his life in the world. Not only those who knew Lincoln, but many who only saw him once or shook hands with him, have been called upon to tell what they saw him do or heard him say. So hearty was his kindness toward everybody that the most casual remark of his seems to be charged with deep human affection— the touch of Nature which has made the whole world kin to him.
He knew just how to sympathize with every one. The people felt this, without knowing why, and recognized it in every deed or word or touch, so that those who have once felt the grasp of his great warm hand seem to have been drawn into the strong circuit of Lincoln fellowship, and were enabled, as if by the laying on of hands, to speak of him ever after with a deep and tender feeling.