in love and despair, but upon
whose brow there already gleamed the illumination of intellect, the
inspiration of patriotism. There were vast possibilities in this young
man's face. He could have gone anywhere and done anything. He might
have been a military chieftain, a novelist, a poet, a philosopher, ah!
a hero, a martyr--and, yes, this young man might have been--he even
was Abraham Lincoln! This was he with the world before him. It is good
fortune to have the magical revelation of the youth of the man the
world venerates. This look into his eyes, into his soul--not before he
knew sorrow, but long before the world knew him--and to feel that it
is worthy to be what it is, and that we are better acquainted with him
and love him the more, is something beyond price."]

[Illustration: LINCOLN IN 1859.

From a photograph in the collection of H.W. Fay, De Kalb, Illinois.
The original was made by S.M. Fassett, of Chicago; the negative
was destroyed in the Chicago fire. This picture was made at the
solicitation of D.B. Cook, who says that Mrs. Lincoln pronounced it
the best likeness she had ever seen of her husband. Rajon used the
Fassett picture as the original of his etching, and Kruell has made a
fine engraving of it.]

[Illustration: LINCOLN IN THE SUMMER OF 1860.

From a copy (made by E.A. Bromley of the Minneapolis "Journal" staff)
of a photograph owned by Mrs. Cyrus Aldrich, whose husband, now dead,
was a congressman from Minnesota. In the summer of 1860 Mr. M.C.
Tuttle, a photographer of St. Paul, wrote to Mr. Lincoln requesting
that he have a negative taken and sent to him for local use in the
campaign. The request was granted, but the negative was broken in
transit. On learning of the accident, Mr. Lincoln sat again, and with
the second negative he sent a jocular note wherein he referred to the
fact, disclosed by the picture, that in the interval he had "got a
new coat." A few copies of the picture were made by Mr. Tuttle, and
distributed among the Republican editors of the State. It has never
before been reproduced. Mrs. Aldrich's copy was presented to her by
William H. Seward, when he was entertained at the Aldrich homestead
(now the Minneapolis City Hospital) in September, 1860. A fine copy
of this same photograph is in the possession of Mr. Ward Monroe, of
Jersey City, N.J.]

William F. Berry, the partner of Lincoln, was the son of a
Presbyterian minister, the Rev. John Berry, who lived on Rock Creek,
fiv