Excerpt from Biographies and Stories of Abraham Lincoln: Emil Ludwig's Story of Lincoln; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources A man of wide experience, a man of insight, meeting him at this stage, will be inclined to regard him as a budding poet or an imaginative writer in the making. And that he is. He writes verses and reads them to his friend. He ponders deeply over the things he reads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.