’ LINCOLN'S READING. I heard a new story about Abraham Lincoln, and best of ‘all about Abra~ ham Line Ins reading, which of all sides of him is perhaps least known A friend of mine now in the city, who had the good fortune to know Lincoln well for two years before his election as President says while sitting in his hotei in Bloomingtou, Ill, early one morning thirty years ago, the land. ocd came up-stairs and asked hin to come down and he introduced to Abraham Lincoln, known and loved of all landlords inthe region about Springfield, My friend went down and found the tall, smonth-shaved lawyer, to whose face he says, no en. gravings or portraits do justice to its He was reading Homer's “Iliad,” in a translation, of course. Liucoln held the book at arm’s length after a word or two had passed, when he laughed wonderful and expressive power, and said: “I have made up my mind that I have got tv read Homers ‘Iliad,’ ” and the quaint look which has become historical spread over his face. “You know a man might as well be out of the world as not read Homer's ‘[liad.’” It was the som. mer of the hot campaign between Lin - coln and Douglas, snd this lawyer politician, whose public reputation TOR 5 CENTS. Gloves al 5c per pair, Ladies, Hose at Se perlpair, Ladies’ Underwear of all Grades, Ladies’ Toilet Sets, Satchels, Ele. A fine line of | Hair Gorls Jewelry, Hanging Lawps, Albums, Glass and Willow ware, iu short the FULLEST AND MOST COM- } PLETE LINE OF NOVELTIES nd other goods, in town, and at the Lowest Prices, Satisfaction guaranteed to all our customer, YARNS, Imported and of Cheaper Grades. All kinds of STAMPING was probably as far] removed from | the classics as soy man who has| reached eminence in our annals, had | selected as the book with] which he | woulu fill up a gap in his mental edu- | cation during the intervalslof this hot | political debate Homer's “Iliad.” There is or ought to be somewhere | a travel-worn Shakespeare which de- serves to be shrined at Washington, Robert Liocoln—to return to Abra- | ham Linco u's reading—is fond of say- ing that his father never traveled without his copy of Shakespeare pack. ed in a box with him. In the odd moments of cases and trials, in deso- late coart-house, in the cheerless - rooms of more desolate hotels, in the dirt and discomfort of railroad travel- ing—aad few of us know what rail road traveliog was on the long stretches of Illinois roads thirty years ago—Abraham Lincoln read and re- read this worn-out copy of Shake speare, committing great stretches of it to memory, until, as most men knows he was able to match the average sc- quaiotance of most actors with greater passages of the great plays. Judge Kelley took one of the actors of the day. John McCullough I think it was, during the war to see Lincoln, and was amazed to find the Presidect as familiar with the poet asiwas the actor. It is of still more interest, in Done, and for less money than you | can get it elsewhere. Dasigns all new. Call aud see us. A CORMAN, | q : connection with Mr. Wilson Barrett's theory of “Hamlet,” that ‘Abraham Lincoln once asked [Hacket:, whose Falstaff was the delight of an early day: “Why do you actors siways play Hamlet as an irresolute, vacillat- ing, vague, middle-aged sort of a man? “Because he was,” replied Mr. Hackett, with the acute certainty of the actor. “But he was not,” said Lincoln ; “he was young impetuous, full of action, prompt. He is always doing some thing. The play is full of it, and he ought to be played as a young mao.” I was privileged the other day to hear Walt Whitman express his opin- ion of these conflicting theories of “Hamlet.” “Is not that,” said the old man, in a slow, ponderous, hesitating tone in which be oflen pauses for a ~word, but pever stops for an idea, “is not that the mystery, the wonder, the fun of it, as the slang word would have it, that Hamlet combines boih these phases, the uncontrollable im~ pulse, aggressive temperament, and at the Same time the meditative, philo- sophie, aoxious, besitatiog man? Is not this the interest of the character which has caused it t» be overlaid with grest sccumuluti, which bave hidden the poet's real jurpose—if he bad one!" 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