syllable of recorded time."

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The editor's thanks are due to the holders of copyrights who have
generously permitted him to include selections from books and magazines
published by them. More particularly he would express his gratitude to the
Yale University Press, to Harper and Brothers, to Henry Holt and Co., to
Doubleday, Page and Co., to the Macmillan Company, to the Century Company,
to the Frederick A. Stokes Company, to the P. F. Collier and Son Company,
to the Houghton Mifflin Company, to the Outlook Company, to the Indiana
University Bookstore, to the editor of the _Harvard Graduates' Magazine_,
to the editors of the _American Historical Review_, and to Harcourt, Brace
and Howe. Specific indications as to the extent of the editor's borrowing
will be found with the selections.

Authors from whose work the editor has wished to quote have been invariably
gracious. To President Wilson for his essay "When a Man Comes to Himself,"
to Governor Coolidge for his Holy Cross College address, to Secretary Lane
for two addresses, and to Commissioner Howe for his article on immigration,
he would express his gratitude. President John Finley, Mr. Walter Prichard
Eaton, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., President W. L. Bryan, Mr. Alvin
Johnson, Mr. John Matthews Manly, Miss Edith Rickert, Mr. Carl Becker, Mr.
Ralph D. Paine, Mr. Burton J. Hendrick, Mr. Philip Littell, and Mr. Bliss
Perry have freely accorded permission to reprint the selections that bear
their names. Mrs. Jacob A. Riis and Mr. R. W. Riis have courteously granted
the use of the excerpt from _The Making of an American_. The editors of
_The New Republic_ and the editors of _The University of Virginia Alumni
Bulletin_ have kindly consented to the reprinting of articles that
originally appeared in their periodicals. To Mr. Will D. Howe, whose
assistance has been constant and invaluable, the editor would extend his
hearty thanks.

MODERN AMERICAN PROSE SELECTIONS

ABRAHAM LINCOLN[1]

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

[Footnote 1: Address delivered at Lincoln's birthplace, Hodgenville, Ky.,
Feb. 12, 1909. Reprinted from _Collier's Weekly_, issue of Feb. 13, 1909.
By permission. Copyright, 1909, P. F. Collier & Son Co.]

We have met here to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of one
of the two greatest Americans; of one of the two or three greatest men of
the nineteenth century; of one of the greatest men in the world's history.