The Century : May - October, 1907. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d.)
—Fiction is represented in this volume by Miss Elizabeth Robins's "Come and Find Me" and by Mrs. F. Hodgson Burnett's "Shuttle." There are also short stories; among them a very well told tale, " Eli Packer's Inheritance." President Lincoln occupies a con- siderable space, as there is every reason that he should. " Lincoln in the Telegraph Office " is the title of most of the papers. Here is a curious extract from a letter of Wendell Phillips which was read at a "sorehead convention" in 1864:—" If Mr. Lincoln is re-elected I do not expect to see the Union reconstructed in my day unless on terms more disastrous to liberty than even dis- union would be." The man of one idea is not fitted for the rale of a prophet. This was one of the adverse influences which made Lincoln underestimate his chances. He reckoned on getting 117 votes (he had had 180 in 1860), but actually received 213. There are, as usual, some excellent illustrations, three fine portraits of Garibaldi among them.
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