At Bloomington, Ill.

THE LOST SPEECH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN—Honore Willsie Morrow— Stokes ($1.00). When homespun Lawyer Lincoln arose at Bloomington, Ill., in May, 1856, to breathe life into an inert body that some editors and politicians had created and hoped to call the Republican Party, he uttered not two score words before his hearers— all the stenographers and reporters present included—lost control over head, heart and hand. When he had done and the Party lived, the stenographers and reporters shudderingly discovered that they had let mighty-worded history fly out of the window. The Morrow...

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