Latest light on Abraham Lincoln - and war-time memories (1917) (14777690332)

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Title: Latest light on Abraham Lincoln : and war-time memories
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Chapman, Ervin S., b. 1838 Hamilton, J. W. (John William), 1845-1934 Gurley, P. D. (Phineas Densmore), 1816-1868
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York Chicago Toronto : F.H. Revell Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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personally present. The rare excellence of the mask is proved by the unequivo-cal and conclusive testimony of thoroughly competent judges.John Hay, in an unqualified commendation of the Volk life-mask says: The face has a clean, firm outline; it is free from fat,but the muscles are hard and full; the large mobile mouth isready to speak, to shout, or laugh; the bold, curved nose isbroad and substantial, with spreading nostrils; it is a face fullof life, of energy, of vivid aspiration.^ Bartlett says: *This life-mask is the first reliable contribu-tion to the material upon which a safe examination of theforms of his face can be made.^ The same author also states: It is a perfect reproductionof Lincolns face. Both mask and hands are distinguished forexactitude of form. And in his account of submitting thelife-mask to the worlds most eminent sculptors at Paris, Mr.Bartlett writes: All of those distinguished sculptors examined19 The Century, November, 1890. 20 Portraits of Lincoln, p. 19.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Bust from the famous life-mask made in Chicago by Leonard W. Volk, inApril, i860, a few days before Lincolns nomination as a candidate forPresident. From a photograph of the bust which is in the authors col-lection. LINCOLNS PERSONAL APPEARANCE 63 and discussed the mask as an original and interesting piece offacial construction.^^ Bernard says: His face, the temple of his manhood, wehave with us in the life-mask, It is infallible, was Borglums characterization of thelife-mask after devoting many months to the most diligentstudy of that great work of art, and after the careful perusalof all of Lincolns speeches and writings together with thestory of his life and the history of his efforts and achievements.Borglum here employs a term that can never be properly ap-plied to any product of human ingenuity and skill. Nothingthat man has constructed is infallible. But that bust was notconstructed. It was not formed and fashioned by humanhands. It was cast in a plaster mold, f