"A remarkable piece of literary achievement—remarkable alike for its fidelity to facts, its fullness of details, its constructive skill, and its literary charm."—New York Times.
"It will always remain the authentic life of Abraham Lincoln,"—Chicago Herald.
"The book is a valuable depository of anecdotes, innumerable and characteristic. It has every claim to the proud coast of being the 'true story of a great life.'"—Philadelphia Ledger.
"Will be accepted as the best biography yet written of the great President."—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
"Mr. White claims that, as a portraiture of the man Lincoln, Mr. Herndon's work 'will never be surpassed.' Certainly it has never been equaled yet, and this new edition is all that could be desired."—New York Observer.
"The three portraits of Lincoln are the best that exist; and not the least characteristic of these, the Lincoln of the Douglas debates, has never before been engraved.... Herndon's narrative gives, as nothing else is likely to give, the material from which we may form a true picture of the man from infancy to maturity,"—The Nation.