People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — McClure’s Magazine For February. [ARTICLE]

McClure’s Magazine For February.

McClure’s Magazine for February takes its first grasp of the reader’s attention with eight portraits of Lincoln (several of them very rare), some twenty other Lincoln pictures, and an account, abounding in vivicf personal details, of Lincoln’s misfortunes as a country merchant; of his entrance into the legislature, beginning of his acquaintance with Douglas; of his work as a village postmasterand a deputy county surveyor; of his study of Shakespeare and Burns and a copy of Blackstone found by chance in a barrel ol refuse; and of his romantic courtship of Ann Rutledge, and his affliction at her death shortly before the time appointed for their marriage.