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Book Notes and Acknowledgments
Lincoln: Living Legend, by T. V. Smith (Chicago: The Uni-
versity of Chicago Press, 1940; pp. 83), Congressman-at-Large
from Illinois, is dedicated to Cooper Union of New York City
before which Abraham Lincoln delivered an important address
on February 27, 1860, and which has recently instituted the
Annual Abraham Lincoln Lectures. Congressman Smith's lec-
ture is the first of these lectures. The prelude of little more than
two pages is an excerpt from the author's memorial address on
Lincoln made before the Illinois State Senate on February 12,
1935, and the postlude of seven pages is taken from the author's
address, "A Philosopher Looks at Lincoln," made before the
Abraham Lincoln Association at Springfield, Illinois, a year
later. The remainder of the book is the lecture proper divided
into thirteen subtopics by which the reader can leisurely fol-
low the lecturer in his interpretation of Lincoln as a living
legend. As the audience must have enjoyed the lecture in New
York, so the reader can enjoy reading it from this book.
R. L. BIESELE.
The University of Texas.
Professor Hutton Webster, in his History of Civilization (Bos-
ton: D. C. Heath & Company, 1940; pp. xix, 1051; maps and
illustrations; $4.50), has essayed the formidable task of com-
pressing the story of civilization within the limits of a single
volume. The author's viewpoint is admittedly that of an "in-
heritor of European or Western civilization," but he has in-
cluded well-rounded chapters on China, India, and pre-Colum-
bian America, thus lifting his text out of the ranks of those
which are based on the assumption that only Western civiliza-
tion has any validity for the modern student. Despite the
broadness of the subject and the limitations of space, the author
has consistently based his generalizations upon a solid frame-
work of fact, and because of this his account is readily in-
telligible and has substance-qualities all too frequently lack-
ing in books of this sort. The difficult problems of proportion
and balance are admirably handled-particularly pleasing is the
fact that ancient times receive just as much space as the middle
ages-but there are places where the arrangement of material
is questionable, and there are topics, notably the military side405
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