niversary of the birth of
Abraham Lincoln]

Frank Dempster Sherman, son of John Dempster and Lucy (McFarland)
Sherman, was born May 6, 1860, at Peekskill, New York; educated at
home and at Columbia and Howard Universities, and since 1886 connected
with Columbia University where he is Professor of Graphics. Author of
several volumes of poems which are published by Houghton-Mifflin
Company, Boston.

Professor Sherman married, November 16, 1887, Juliet Durand, daughter
of Rev. Cyrus Bervic and Sarah Elizabeth (Merserveau) Durand.

He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

ON A BRONZE MEDAL OF LINCOLN

This bronze our Lincoln's noble head doth bear,
Behold the strength and splendor of that face,
So homely-beautiful, with just a trace
Of humor lightening its look of care,
With bronze indeed his memory doth share,
This martyr who found freedom for a Race;
Both shall endure beyond the time and place
That knew them first, and brighter grow with wear.
Happy must be the genius here that wrought
These features of the great American
Whose fame lends so much glory to our past--
Happy to know the inspiration caught
From this most human and heroic man
Lives here to honor him while Art shall last.

[Illustration: MARBLE HEAD OF LINCOLN

In Statuary Hall, Capitol in Washington, Gutzon Borglum, sculptor]

Ella Wheeler [Wilcox] was born in Johnstown Centre, Wisconsin, in
1845. Was educated at the public schools at Windsor and at the
University of Wisconsin. In 1884 she married Robert M. Wilcox.
Contributed articles for newspapers at an early age and also wrote and
published a number of books of poems.

THE GLORY THAT SLUMBERED IN THE GRANITE ROCK

A granite rock on the mountain side
Gazed on the world and was satisfied;
It watched the centuries come and go--
It welcomed the sunlight, and loved the snow,
It grieved when the forest was forced to fall,
But smiled when the steeples rose, white and tall,
In the valley below it, and thrilled to hear
The voice of the great town roaring near.

When the mountain stream from its idle play
Was ca