. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. lptor 208 President Lincoln, Photograph by Brady, 1864 .... 210Statue of Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Chicago; Augustus Saint Gaudens, sculptor 214 Tablet at Philadelphia 218 Statue of Lincoln, in Rotunda of Capitol; Vinnie Ream, sculptor 222 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Statue of Lincoln, in Lincoln, Neb.; Daniel Chester French, sculptor 226 Statue of Lincoln, in Burlington, Wis.; George E. Ganiere, sculptor 228 Statue of Lincoln, in Edinburgh, Scotland; George E. Bissell, sculptor 231 Statue of Lincoln, in Newark, N. J.; Gutzon Borglum,
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. lptor 208 President Lincoln, Photograph by Brady, 1864 .... 210Statue of Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Chicago; Augustus Saint Gaudens, sculptor 214 Tablet at Philadelphia 218 Statue of Lincoln, in Rotunda of Capitol; Vinnie Ream, sculptor 222 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Statue of Lincoln, in Lincoln, Neb.; Daniel Chester French, sculptor 226 Statue of Lincoln, in Burlington, Wis.; George E. Ganiere, sculptor 228 Statue of Lincoln, 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 . 246A Study of Lincoln, Painting by Blendon Campbell . 249The Lincoln Memorial, at Washington, D. C, Henry Bacon, architect 252. LINCOLN From a bust by Johannes Gelert INTRODUCTION THE POETIC SPIRIT OF LINCOLNBy Marion Mills Miller (See biographical sketch on page 146) SOME years ago, while editing Henry C. WhitneysLife of Lincoln I showed a photograph of thebust of Lincoln by Johannes Gelert, the most in-tellectual to my mind of all the studies of his face, toa little Italian shoeblack, and asked him if he knewwho it was. The boy, evidently prompted by a recentlesson at school, said questioningly, Whittier? —Longfellow? I replied, No, it is Lincoln, the greatPresident. He answered, Well, he looks like a poet,anyway. This verified a conclusion to which I had alreadycome: Lincoln, had he lived in a region of greaterculture, such as New England, might not have adoptedthe engrossing pursuits of law and politics, but, as didWhittier, have remained longer on the farm and grad-ually taken up the calling of letters, composing verseof much the same o
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