BOOK THREE.
XVII Wherein Young Mr.Lincoln Betrays Ignorance of Two Highly Important Subjects, in Consequence of Which He Begins to Suffer Serious Embarrassment XVIII In Which Mr.Lincoln, Samson and Harry Take a Long Ride Together and the Latter Visit the Flourishing Little City of Chicago XIX Wherein Is One of the Many Private Panics Which Followed the Bursting of the Bubble of Speculation XX Which Tells of the Settling of Abe Lincoln and the Traylors in the Village of Springfield and of Samson's Second Visit to Chicago XXI Wherein a Remarkable School of Political Science Begins Its Sessions in the Rear of Joshua Speed's Store.

Also at Samson's Fireside Honest Abe Talks of the Authority of the Law and the Right of Revolution, and Later Brings a Suit against Lionel Davis XXII Wherein Abe Lincoln Reveals His Method of Conducting a Lawsuit in the Case of Henry Brimstead et al.vs.Lionel Davis XXIII Which Presents the Pleasant Comedy of Individualism in the New Capital, and the Courtship of Lincoln and Mary Todd XXIV Which Describes a Pleasant Holiday and a Pretty Stratagem XXV Being a Brief Memoir by the Honorable and Venerable Man Known in These Pages as Josiah Traylor, Who Saw the Great Procession of Events between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson and Especially the Making and the End of Lincoln A MAN FOR THE AGES.