“Mr. Hill has undoubtedly rendered a conspicuous and important service.” Floyd R. Mechem.
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“This is an extremely interesting and well-written work, a contribution of real value to the already voluminous literature dealing with the life of the great Emancipator. There is one criticism that we think can be justly made. The author lays far too much stress and importance, in our judgment, on Lincoln’s legal training, and attributes a value to it out of all proportion to the proper relation it bears to the action of the great and single-hearted statesman.”
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“Mr. Hill has done the public and the profession a favor in showing how it came about that Mr. Lincoln was one of the great lawyers of this country.”
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“No one familiar with the qualities which the legal profession demands and generates in its best representatives needs to be told how much of Lincoln’s strength in the presidency resulted from that daily exercise which the practice of law had provided. It is the special virtue of Mr. Hill’s book that it will bring home to many readers this important fact, and will help them to realize what a great man and a great profession may owe to each other.” M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
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Hill, George Birkbeck. Letters of George Birkbeck Hill, arranged by his daughter, Lucy Crump. *$3.50. Longmans.
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