. : [booklet]. higher in the es-timation of are at least fivehundred Lincoln col-lections and a grow-ing Lincoln litera-ture. There are saidto be three thousandbooks and pamphletson Lincoln, not in-cluding periodicalliterature, engrav-ings, lithographs,paintings and are, besides,large collections ofphotographs and alsoof relics such as thatof Mr. Oldroyd, in thehouse at Washingtonin which Lincoln of Lincoln havebeen published in allleading foreign lan-guages. The words ofLincoln have becomethe common property of mankind andthey are everywhere used in c
. : [booklet]. higher in the es-timation of are at least fivehundred Lincoln col-lections and a grow-ing Lincoln litera-ture. There are saidto be three thousandbooks and pamphletson Lincoln, not in-cluding periodicalliterature, engrav-ings, lithographs,paintings and are, besides,large collections ofphotographs and alsoof relics such as thatof Mr. Oldroyd, in thehouse at Washingtonin which Lincoln of Lincoln havebeen published in allleading foreign lan-guages. The words ofLincoln have becomethe common property of mankind andthey are everywhere used in conversationand in literature as are those of his favor-ite authors, Shakespeare and Burns, or ofthe Bible, from which he himself so fre-quently and so effectively drew. And soit is that Lincoln is to-day a growing in-fluence in the affairs of men ; and so willit be as each succeeding year further car-ries his words into the language, hisideas into the government and his mem-ory into the hearts of his countrymen. 30. STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, UNVEILED IN HIS NATIVE TOWN, HODGENVILLE, KY.,MEMORIAL DAY, 1909. ADOLPH A. WEINMAN, Colliers Weekly, June 19, 1909. This statue is an outgrowth of the work of the Lincoln Farm Association, in pre-serving and popularizing Lincolns birthplace. It is the gift of the State and the Nationto the little town near which the great Emancipator first saw the light of day. The statue is located in the Court House Square. The unveiling ceremony was beau-tiful and impressive. A long procession of school children, all in white, each carrying awreath of roses, acted as escorts to the carriages containing the guests. Among thesewere Honorable Robert T. Lincoln and Mrs. Ben Hardin Helm, a sister of Mrs. AbrahamLincoln, who unveiled the statue. The photograph gives a happy picture of this inter-esting event: with flowers and garlands, with singing children, with veterans of theblue and the gray, with the grandchildren of Lincolns neighbors, wi
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