NCOLN, in Edinburgh, Scotland; George E. Bissell,
sculptor ................................................ 231
STATUE OF LINCOLN, in Newark, N. J.; Gutzon Borglum,
sculptor ................................................ 234
CHILDREN ON THE BORGLUM STATUE ................................ 236
HEAD OF LINCOLN, Bronze Medallion in Commemoration of Lincoln
Centenary, Struck for the Grand Army of the Republic .... 238
MARBLE HEAD OF LINCOLN, in Statuary Hall, Capitol; Gutzon
Borglum, sculptor ....................................... 240
THE LINCOLN BOULDER, at Nyack, N. Y. .......................... 243
BAS-RELIEF HEAD OF LINCOLN, James W. Tuft, sculptor ........... 246
A STUDY OF LINCOLN, Painting by Blendon Campbell .............. 249
THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, at Washington, D. C., Henry Bacon,
architect ............................................... 252

[Illustration: LINCOLN

From a bust by Johannes Gelert]

INTRODUCTION

THE POETIC SPIRIT OF LINCOLN

By MARION MILLS MILLER

(See biographical sketch on page 146)

Some years ago, while editing Henry C. Whitney's "Life of Lincoln" I
showed a photograph of the bust of Lincoln by Johannes Gelert, the most
intellectual to my mind of all the studies of his face, to a little
Italian shoeblack, and asked him if he knew who it was. The boy,
evidently prompted by a recent lesson at school, said questioningly,
"Whittier?--Longfellow?" I replied, "No, it is Lincoln, the great
President." He answered, "Well, he looks like a poet, anyway."

This verified a conclusion to which I had already come: Lincoln, had
he lived in a region of greater culture, such as New England, might
not have adopted the engrossing pursuits of law and politics, but, as
did Whittier, have remained longer on the farm and gradually taken up
the calling of letters, composing verse of much the same order as our
Yankee bards', and poetry of even higher merit than some produced.

It is not generally known that Lincoln, shortly before he went to
Congress, wrote verse of a kind to compare favorably with the early
attempts of American poets such as those named. Thus the two poems of
his which have been preserved, for his early lampoons on his neighbors
have happily been lost, are equal in poetic spirit and metrical art