. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. life of a country boy, going to schoolsix months in the year till he was fourteen, after whichhe had to work on the farm in summer. His books hadmore interest to him than his work, and he managedto learn more out of school than in it. At sixteen hewrote articles in verse and prose for magazines andjournals. He was a contributor to the Atlantic the great rebellion, he wrote several storiesof the war: The Drummer Boy, 1863, and The ThreeScouts, 1865. On the return of peace he spent somefour months in the principal
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. life of a country boy, going to schoolsix months in the year till he was fourteen, after whichhe had to work on the farm in summer. His books hadmore interest to him than his work, and he managedto learn more out of school than in it. At sixteen hewrote articles in verse and prose for magazines andjournals. He was a contributor to the Atlantic the great rebellion, he wrote several storiesof the war: The Drummer Boy, 1863, and The ThreeScouts, 1865. On the return of peace he spent somefour months in the principal southern States, for thepurpose of gaining accurate views of the condition ofsociety there after the war. He published the resultof these observations June, 1866, in a volume entitled,The South. A collected edition of his poems was pub-lished in 1869, entitled The Vagabonds, and OtherPoems. LINCOLN HEROIC soul, in homely garb half hid,Sincere, sagacious, melancholy, quaint;What he endured, no less than what he did,Has reared his monument, and crowned him STATUE OF LINCOLN Burlington, Wisconsin. George E. Ganiere, sculptor Unveiled October 13, 1913 THE POETS LINCOLN 229 KINAHAN CORNWALLIS was born in London,England, December 24, 1839. Entered BritishColonial Civil Service; two years at Melbourne,Australia. Located in New York in 1860, one of theeditors and correspondent of the Herald. Accompaniedthe Prince of Wales on his American tour. Admittedto the New York bar in 1863; financial editor andgeneral editorial writer of New York Herald, and proprietor of The Knickerbocker Magazine,afterward of The Albion. Since 1886 editor and pro-prietor Wall Street Daily Investigator, now Wall StreetDaily Investor. Author of Howard Plunkett (a novel);an Australian poem, 1857. The Neiv Eldorado, orBritish Columbia (Travels); Two Journeys to Japan;A Panorama of the New World; Wreck and Ruin, orModern Society (novel); My Life and Adventures(story), 1859, also of many other
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