Reviewed by John Maxwell Crowe.
| + + | School R. 14: 698. N. ’06. 230w. |
Tarbell, Ida Minerva. [He knew Lincoln.] **50c. McClure.
7–12636.
A brief sketch which Billy Brown, one time druggist at Springfield, Illinois, gives of the Abraham Lincoln whom he knew, the Lincoln who used to sit swapping stories with his cronies in Billy’s little store. It is a vivid picture of the man; pathetic, humorous, but above all human.
“Although short, and expensive for the number of its pages, it is worth buying because of its excellence and the universality of its appeal.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 204. N. ’07. |
“It is sure to take its place among the permanent and valued tributes to the memory of its hero.” Harry James Smith.
| + + | Atlan. 100: 135. Jl. ’07. 180w. |