Show Lincolns Care In the Use of Words In the opinion ot the Judges and proe Uloner Ih whom Lincoln was ease elated during Ills quarter of I century 0 at the bar his most prominent charac Tlstlc was its rare faculty for det ing and dlcloBlng the controlling point In i a legal battle Dut not less than this woo his clear full orderly and acurate statement ot a case always so fair and logical that I was often said that anr Lincoln had ummed up the 1m portent facts In a conlroey there was hut little ocalon for argu merit on either side le habitually employed at the bar the same care and skill In the use ot word and the expression ot ideas which he so oftdn Afterward ex hlblted when called to a Ingher field ot cale hghe feld labor Instances ot which are seen lu all his state papers Anil In the changes for the better hlch he made In the wrlUngR ot his scholarly cetao ot state pal lculaly In the corrpondence Iatve to the Trent affair which probablY pro-bablY Avoided a war with England A fine example ot the grand e ur ot his diction to to be found In his Oettys burg address which ndll permanent place In the literature ot the world lie thought vigorously and thorough ut I I Jr but did riot speak quickly hnO reality f bill hesitation was only the result ot his great care always to know his ground Bill habit wu before pcaklng or ActIng act-Ing to deliberately 1001 through around and boicral vr tact olcmcnt or proposition Involved and subject It to tits wonderful Powers of perception und analBI This required time but I made him uccBtnl In every 1m prtant undertaking WhIle lie thouht Much he could not truthfully bo called a great reloe lie knew thoroughly th work ot Coke lnckonoRtephn Chilly Htorky and later Orpnllt Evidence anti Story Equity ne gave hut little time to corchlng for precedents prece-dents or studying what Is I called case lawFrong ILlAwcoltrim Skill its a Lawyer Law-yer b James L 1lng UbrnrlAn ot Knnso State Library In North AmerIcan Amer-Ican Review for February |