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Show A MAN OP LETTERS V H ' 11 Rare Brevity and Beauty of Lincoln's 5. . Moro Notable Addresses. Ijf Nothing would have amazed Mr. Lin- ; ' coin more than to hear himself called a j, 1 man of letters; and yet it would bo v hard to find in all lit oraturc anything : 1 1 to excel thu brovity and beauty of his I, address at Gettysburg or tho lofty graudenr of his second inaugural. In ,1, J IH Europo his style has been called a t i model for tho study and imitation of r1 1 ' H Princes, while in our own country many . IH of his phrases havo already passed Into j tho daily speech of mankind. . , ., His gift of putting things simply and ; "H clearly was partly tho habit of his own ' clear mind, and partly tho result oi tho Is.. training ho gavo himself in days of boy-. . ish poverty, when paper and ink were luxuries almost beyond bin , . f ' reach, and tho words ho wished to set ! . !H down must be tho best words, and iV tho clearest and shortest, to express ,, the ideas he had in view. This training ft of tliought before expression, of know- Jjj ' 1 iug exactly what he wished to say Ml H betoro saying it, stood him In good jH stead all his life; but only tho mind of j' . JH a great man, with a lofty soul and a - jH poet's vision; ono who had suffered I; , -1 deeply and felt keenly; who carried tho H burden of a nation on his heart, whoso V' 1 sympathies were as broad and whoso j?,. 1 kindness was as gront as his moral I ij;' purpose was strong and firm, could havo . 1 written tho doep, forceful, convincing ' x words that fell from his pen in the later ; H vcars of bis life. It was tho life ho ; r. . B lived, tho noble aim that uphold him, , .'jr. H as woll as tho genius witli which ho was H born, that mnde him ono of tho greatest ,i H writes of our time. Helen NTeolnv, In R j ' H SI. Nicholas. I lt |