athless fame;
Let vale and rock, and hill, and land, and sea
His memory swell--the anthem of the free.

[Illustration: STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

On the State Capitol Grounds at Lincoln, Nebraska.
Unveiled September 2, 1912. Daniel Chester French, sculptor]

John Townsend Trowbridge, born September 18, 1827, in Ogden, New York.
He lived the ordinary life of a country boy, going to school six
months in the year till he was fourteen, after which he had to work on
the farm in summer. His books had more interest to him than his work,
and he managed to learn more out of school than in it. At sixteen he
wrote articles in verse and prose for magazines and journals. He was a
contributor to the _Atlantic Monthly_.

During the great rebellion, he wrote several stories of the war: _The
Drummer Boy_, 1863, and _The Three Scouts_, 1865. On the return of
peace he spent some four months in the principal southern States, for
the purpose of gaining accurate views of the condition of society
there after the war. He published the result of these observations
June, 1866, in a volume entitled, _The South_. A collected edition of
his poems was published in 1869, entitled _The Vagabonds, and Other
Poems_.

LINCOLN

Heroic soul, in homely garb half hid,
Sincere, sagacious, melancholy, quaint;
What he endured, no less than what he did,
Has reared his monument, and crowned him saint.

[Illustration: STATUE OF LINCOLN

Burlington, Wisconsin. George E. Ganiere, sculptor
Unveiled October 13, 1913]

Kinahan Cornwallis was born in London, England, December 24, 1839.
Entered British Colonial Civil Service; two years at Melbourne,
Australia. Located in New York in 1860, one of the editors and
correspondent of the _Herald_. Accompanied the Prince of Wales on his
American tour. Admitted to the New York bar in 1863; financial editor
and general editorial writer of _New York Herald_, 1860-69. Editor and
proprietor of _The Knickerbocker Magazine_, afterward of _The Albion_.
Since 1886 editor and proprietor _Wall Street Daily Investigator_, now
_Wall Street Daily Investor_. Author of _Howard Plunkett_ (a novel);
an Australian poem, 1857. The _New Eldorado, or British Columbia_
(Travels); _Two Journeys to Japan_; _A Panorama of the New World_;
_Wreck and Rui