TABLE OF CONTENTS

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Ida M. Tarbell. [307]

Lincoln Is Admitted to the Bar. [310]

Lincoln in the Tenth Assembly of Illinois. [312]

The Removal of the Capital to Springfield. [315]

Lincoln's First Reported Speech. [317]

Abraham Lincoln's First Protest Against Slavery. [320]

Social Life in Vandalia in 1836 and 1837. [321]

Lincoln Moves to Springfield. [322]

Lincoln's Position in Springfield. [325]

THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF. By Rudyard Kipling. [328]

A CENTURY OF PAINTING. By Will H. Low.[337]

CY AND I. By Eugene Field. [353]

A YOUNG HERO. By John Hay. [354]

CHAPTERS FROM A LIFE. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. [361]

LOST YOUTH. By R.L. Steveson. [369]

THE DIVIDED HOUSE. By Julia D. Whiting. [370]

SCIENTIFIC KITE-FLYING. By Cleveland Moffett. [379]

How to Make a Scientific Kite. [380]

How to Send Up a Kite. [382]

Runaway Tandems. [383]

The Lifting Power of Kites. [384]

The Meteorological Use of Kites. [386]

The Highest Flight Ever Made by a Kite. [387]

Drawing Down Electricity by a Kite-string. [390]

The Use of Kites in Photography. [390]

Possible Use of Kites in War. [391]

A DRAMATIC POINT. By Robert Barr. [393]

EDITORIAL NOTES. [399]

"Justice, Where Art Thou?" [399]

"A Disgrace to Civilization." [399]

The Real Lincoln. [400]

Lincoln in 1860--J. Henry Brown's Journal. [400]