GREATEST CHARACTER SINCE CHRIST BY JOHN HAY, Former Private Secretary to President Lincoln, and Later Secretary of State in President McKinley’s Cabinet. As, in spite of some rudeness, republicanism is the sole hope of a sick world, so Lincoln, with all his foibles, is the greatest character since Christ. STORIES INFORM THE COMMON PEOPLE, BY CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, United States Senator from New York. Mr. Lincoln said to me once: “They say I tell a great many stories; I reckon I do, but I have found in the course of a long experience that common people, take them as they run, are more easily informed through the medium of a broad illustration than in any other way, and as to what the hypercritical few may think, I don’t care.” HUMOR A PASSPORT TO THE HEART BY GEO. S. BOUTWELL, Former Secretary of the United States Treasury. Mr. Lincoln’s wit and mirth will give him a passport to the thoughts and hearts of millions who would take no interest in the sterner and more practical parts of his character. DROLL, ORIGINAL AND APPROPRIATE. BY ELIHU B. WASHBURNE, Former United States Minister to France. Mr. Lincoln’s anecdotes were all so droll, so original, so appropriate and so illustrative of passing incidents, that one never wearied. LINCOLN’S HUMOR A SPARKLING SPRING, BY DAVID R. LOCKE (PETROLEUM V. NASBY), Lincoln’s Favorite Humorist. Mr. Lincoln’s flow of humor was a sparkling spring, gushing out of a rock--the flashing water had a somber background which made it all the brighter. LIKE AESOP’S FABLES, BY HUGH McCULLOCH, Former Secretary of the United States Treasury. Many of Mr. Lincoln’s stories were as apt and instructive as the best of Aesop’s Fables. FULL OF FUN, BY GENERAL JAMES B. FRY, Former Adjutant-General United States Army. Mr. Lincoln was a humorist so full of fun that he could not keep it all in. INEXHAUSTIBLE FUND OF STORIES, BY LAWRENCE WELDON, Judge United States Court of Claims. Mr. Lincoln’s resources as a story-teller were inexhaustible, and no condition could arise in a case beyond his capacity to furnish an illustration with an appropriate anecdote. CHAMPION STORY-TELLER, BY BEN. PERLEY POORE, Former Editor of The Congressional Record. Mr. Lincoln was recognized as the champion story-teller of the Capitol. LINCOLN CHRONOLOGY.