GROUND BY A TANDEM OF HIS
BOX-KITES.
FRANKFORT STREET. PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW FROM A KITE.
FRANKFORT STREET. PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW FROM A KITE. (ANOTHER VIEW.)
THE EDDY TAILLESS KITE.
THE HARGRAVE BOX-KITE.
NEW YORK, EAST RIVER, BROOKLYN, AND NEW YORK BAY, FROM A KITE.
PHOTOGRAPHING FROM A KITE-LINE.
CITY HALL PARK AND BROADWAY FROM A KITE.
MURRAY AND WARREN STREETS, NEW YORK CITY, FROM A KITE.
KITE-DRAWN BUOY.
DIRIGIBLE KITE-DRAWN BUOY.
THE KITE-BUOY IN SERVICE.
"MY GOD!--YOU WERE RIGHT--AFTER ALL."

[Illustration: LINCOLN IN 1860.--HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.

From an ambrotype taken in Springfield, Illinois, on August 13, 1860,
and now owned by Mr. William H. Lambert of Philadelphia, through
whose courtesy we are allowed to reproduce it here. This ambrotype was
bought by Mr. Lambert from Mr. W.P. Brown of Philadelphia. Mr. Brown
writes of the portrait: "This picture, along with another one of the
same kind, was presented by President Lincoln to my father, J. Henry
Brown, deceased (miniature artist), after he had finished painting
Lincoln's picture on ivory, at Springfield, Illinois. The commission
was given my father by Judge Read (John M. Read of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania), immediately after Lincoln's nomination for the
Presidency. One of the ambrotypes I sold to the Historical Society
of Boston, Massachusetts, and it is now in their possession." The
miniature referred to is now owned by Mr. Robert T. Lincoln. It
was engraved by Samuel Sartain, and circulated widely before the
inauguration. After Mr. Lincoln grew a beard, Sartain put a beard on
his plate, and the engraving continued to sell extensively. While Mr.
Brown was in Springfield painting the miniature he kept a journal,
which Mr. Lambert also owns and which he has generously put at our
disposal. It will be found on page 400.]

McCLURE'S MAGAZINE.

VOL. VI. MARCH, 1896. No. 4.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

BY IDA M. TARBELL.

LINCOLN'S ELECTION TO THE TENTH ASSEMBLY.--ADMISSION TO THE
BAR.--REMOVAL TO SPRINGFIELD.

The first twenty-six years of Abraham Lincoln's life have been traced
in the preceding chapters. We have seen him struggling to escape
from the lot of a common farm laborer, to which he seemed to be born;
becoming a flatboatman, a grocery clerk, a store-keeper, a postmaster,
and finally a surveyor. We have traced his efforts to rise above
the intellectual apathy and the indifference to culture whic