ance. "About" thirty would be
the general verdict, if it were not that the daguerreotype
was unknown when Lincoln was of that age. It does not seem,
however, that he could have been more than thirty-five, and
for that age the youthfulness of the portrait is wonderful.
This is a new Lincoln, and far more attractive, in a sense,
than anything the public has possessed. This is the portrait
of a remarkably handsome man.... The head is magnificent,
the eyes deep and generous, the mouth sensitive, the whole
expression something delicate, tender, pathetic, poetic. This
was the young man with whom the phantoms of romance dallied,
the young man who recited poems and was fanciful and
speculative, and 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 1863.

From a photograph by Brady, taken in Washington.]

[Illustration: LINCOLN IN 1854--HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.

From a photograph owned by Mr. George Schneider of Chicago,
Illinois, former editor of the "Staats Zeitung," the most influential
anti-slavery German newspaper of the West. Mr. Schneider first met Mr.
Lincoln in 1853, in Springfield. "He was already a man necessary to
know," says Mr. Schneider. In 1854 Mr. Lincoln was in Chicago, and
Mr. Isaac N. Arnold, a prominent lawyer and politician of Illinois,
invited Mr. Schneider to dine with Mr. Lincoln. After dinner, as
the gentlemen were going down town, they stopped at an itinerant
photograph gallery, and Mr. Lincoln had the above picture taken for
Mr. Schneider. The newspaper he holds in his hands is the "Press and
Tribune." The picture has never before been reproduced.]

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