A fascinating look at the early life of Abraham Lincoln through his term as Illinois congressman. Writer and poet Carl Sandburg, with an accumulation of historical documents and a storehouse of anecdotes about the object of his keen interest (having grown up in Illinois) paints a compelling picture of the 16th President and the rugged frontier life of the early 19th Century. - Summary by Scotty…
THE } following Pictures of Old England were originally "^sketched by the author with the view of more clearly^illustrating to his countrymen his History of England in the Middle Ages1, a work which is admitted by all who are capable of forming an opinion on the question to be characterized by impartial truthfulness and by indefatigable industry in the research of minute documentary evidence. T…
he Chants in this Collection have been arranged with the following main principles in view : — (i) That single or double Chants should be used according to the character and construction of each Psalm. See Psalms xv. (single) ; xxiv. (double). (2) That the construction of each Psalm should as far as possible govern the antiphonal arrangement ; e.g., if the parallel or antithesis occu…
I HAVE felt from the first that the task friendship has allotted to me is one it is almost impossible to discharge to anybody's satisfaction. To write a short sketch of some one of brilliant parts but obscure destiny, whose life's story was ' a fragment known to few,' who never had justice done to him, and over whose new-made grave a great silence brooded, would be (so at least I have often tho…