BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
1917

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY META ROTHSCHILD
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published September 1917

IN MEMORY
OF
“DEAREST”
KATHERINE ROTHSCHILD
TO WHOM THE AUTHOR
OWES NOT LESS THAN
LINCOLN OWED HIS
“ANGEL MOTHER”
THIS BOOK IS
AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED

CONTENTS

[I.] [Pinching Times][1]
[II.] [Truth in Law][41]
[III.] [Professional Ethics][79]
[IV.] [Dollars and Cents][130]
[V.] [Honesty in Politics][195]
[Alonzo Rothschild][283]
Memoir by John Rothschild
[A List of Books Cited][307]
[Notes][321]
[Index][361]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Abraham Lincoln][Frontispiece]
From a woodcut by T. Johnson in the Century Magazine
for February, 1897, after a daguerreotype owned by Mr.
Robert T. Lincoln. It is not known when or where the
daguerreotype was taken, but it seems probable that it was
made either at St. Louis or at Washington when Lincoln
was in Congress, December, 1847,-March, 1849
[Alonzo Rothschild][285]
From a photograph by Marceau, Boston

“HONEST ABE”