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300 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS have made his face one of the most familiar of all time have been mostly copied from photographs. There are portraits from life by Frank B. Carpen ter, by Matthew Wilson, by Thomas Hicks, and an excellent crayon drawing by Barry. Since his death G. P. A. Healy, William Page, and others have painted portraits of him. There are two authentic life-masks: one made in 1858 by Leonard W. Volk, who also executed a bust of Mr. Lincoln before his election in 1860, and another by Clark Mills shortly before the assassination. There are already a num ber of statues: one by Henry Kirke Brown in Union square, New York; another by the same artist in Brooklyn; one in the group called "Eman cipation," by Thomas Ball, in Lincoln Park, Wash ington, D. C., a work which has especial interest as having been paid for by the contributions of the freed people ; one by Mrs. Vinnie Ream Hoxie in the Capital; one by Augustus St. Gaudens in Chicago, set up in Chicago, October 22, 1887 ; and one by Randolph Rogers in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. There is a bust by Thomas D. Jones, modelled from life in 1860. The Lincoln bibliography is enormous, compris ing thousands of volumes. See John Russell Bart- lett s "Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets relating to the Civil War in the United States" (Boston, 1866). The most noteworthy of the lives of Lin coln already published are those of Joseph H.