_The London Telegraph_:--"Mr. Grierson pierces to the heart of his theme with a keenness that is almost disconcerting. He illumines the most obscure situation by one of his sudden flashes of insight. The poise of his sentences has something of Gallic precision about it and it is not surprising that savants of contemporary French literature have praised his work with generous emphasis. Such an influence, working like leaven in the lump, cannot fail to make its presence appreciated." THE VALLEY OF SHADOWS _Arnold Bennett, in a long review_:--"'The Valley of Shadows' is a noble book.... Mr. Grierson's descriptions possess a detaching sentiment of beauty with absolute visual quality." _The New York Times_:--"Perhaps at last, before oblivion closes over the ante-bellum days in Illinois, the laureate of the Lincoln Country has arrived. If there is another book in existence which deals so graphically and so faithfully with that period we do not know of it." _The Literary Digest_:--"Grierson's description of Lincoln as he stood before Douglas at Alton, is more real, more lifelike, than any statue or picture, and will in future ages take rank with Balzac's description of Dante." _Sir Owen Seaman (Editor of Punch)_:--"There are chapters in 'The Valley of Shadows' that haunt one afterward like remembered music." THE CELTIC TEMPERAMENT _Prof. William James_:--"I find this volume full of wisdom. The pages of 'Reflections' have found their mark in me." _Maeterlinck_:--"'The Celtic Temperament' is one of the most subtle and substantial books that I know." PARISIAN PORTRAITS _The London Times_:--"The most remarkable feature of Mr. Grierson's 'Parisian Portraits' is their extraordinary clear and various detail; they are served up with truth undiluted by sentiment. His insight is sure and his choice of subject exclusive." _Leon Bazalgette, in La Phalange, Paris_:--"In his 'Parisian Portraits' Francis Grierson gives us some chapters of his romantic and marvellous existence. He conquers us by a very rare quality of evoking and suggesting a spiritual atmosphere." ------------------------------------------- JOHN LANE COMPANY, NEW YORK JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, LONDON TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES Only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Abraham Lincoln, by Francis Grierson