Excerpt from Bibliographia Lincolniana: An Account of the Publications Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States of America, Being a Bibliographical Catalogue of All Sermons, Eulogies, Orations, Etc, , Delivered at the Time, With Notes and an IntroductiFive years ago the nation was called upon to give its utterance upon the fiendish crime committed at its national capital, on the person of its chief magistrate, and five years ago the writer of this monograph designed the present work to preserve and memoralize those utterances. To many this volume will appear to be nothing but a bald catalogue, of little value and less interest, a production showing very meagre results for five years of diligent labor expended in its preparation. Yet so it is, that in the field of literature, the bibliographers task is that requiring the greatest patience and labor, with the least impressive results, as is quaintly said by Anthony a Wood, in the preface to his History of Oxford: "A painfull work it is I'll assure you, and more than difficult, wherein what toyle hath been taken, as no man thinketh, so no man believeth, but he hath made the triall, " But is it therefore of the least value? Is it nothing to have preserved for future ages, a record of those products of the press, called forth by one of the greatest epochs in the nations life, to erect a library within one cover for the true historian, the one of fifty or a hundred years hence, to make choice of the foundation whereupon to build his more enduring monument. It is with this aim alone that the Bibliographia Lincolniana has been executed. It was at first intended that it should accompany the "Life of President Lincoln, " to be written by his old friend and law partner, the Hon. William H. Herndon, of Springfield, Illinois, but this gentleman has desisted from his work, having decided that the time has not yet arrived for the proper appreciation of such a work as his materials and knowledge of the subject would produce. It therefore appears in its present form. It had been the intention of the writer to add a biographical memoir, prepared solely from the works named in the following catalogue, giving extracts and selections from each, but his manuscript prepared after this manner, was accidentally lost in its transmission to the printer, so that the following sketch must be accepted in its stead, his time not allowing him the labor of producing a duplicate of the first.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.