the

faithfully portrayed, suggest the new ideal that it is the august duty of twentienthcentury spiritually awakened men of genius to present before the imagination of the young. No man can conceive the momentous results that will follow the transfer of the imagination of the young from self-centered war-gods to prophet-poets and inspirers of the higher and finer sentiments of the truly civilized man; from the Alexanders, Cæsars and Napoleons, of whom we have had such a surfeit in literature during the recent years, to the Hugos, the Ruskins, the Tennysons, the Whittiers, the Lowells, the Lincolns and the Markhams. The whole front of civilization will be changed when the mind of youth is fed on that which awakens moral enthusiasm and creates a passionate love for all the children of men, instead of being riveted on the ideals which embody, first of all, force, and secondly, self-interest. This change means the lifting of the imagination and ideals of

civilization from engrossment in material concepts to the spiritual sphere from which life must more and more draw its inspiration and upon the dominance of which the uninterrupted progress of civilization depends. Let our schoolrooms be filled with busts of Lowell, Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant and Tennyson; of Fröbel, Ruskin, Grotius and Hugo; of Jefferson and Lincoln. Let the walls be decorated with reproductions of works of those great masters in art who have externalized lofty and immortal dreams. Let the teachers dwell upon the works and the lives of these great personalities who have enriched the world of art and literature and played upon the highest chords of the emotional nature; and the transforming effect will be almost inconceivable, acting day by day on the plastic character as the sculptor's touch which fashions the clay.

Whitman and Whittier suggest so much that is rugged, strong and morally healthful that they call for much more extended notice than it is possible to give at the present time. Each reflects the manthe soul of the man. Here is the sturdy, iconoclastic democrat, free-soaring child of America, with much of the elemental passions in his being. And here is the austere yet sweet-souled Quaker bard who was alternately a prophet of freedom and human rights and the sweetest singer of the America of the nineteenth century.

Another portrait that is justly famous is that of the Rev. Edward Everett Hale. This, like that of Tennyson, was made from life. The great Unitarian divine, who is at present chaplain of the United States Senate, and the sculptor have long been intimate friends.

But among Mr. Partridge's heads we think none of them is more entitled to unstinted praise than the magnificent portrait bust of Abraham Lincoln. Here we have the rugged son of the soil, the apostle of justice and democracy, the wise statesman and brave emancipator, who dared to tread the pathway of duty even though it led to a martyr's death. Lincoln represented the spirit of democracy in a greater

"The color of the ground was in him, the red earth;
The tang and odor of the primal things-
The rectitude and patience of the rocks;
The gladness of the wind that shakes the corn;
The courage of the bird that dares the sea;
The justice of the rain that loves all leaves;
The pity of the snow that hides all scars;
The loving-kindness of the wayside well;
The tolerance and equity of light

That gives as freely to the shrinking weed
As to the great oak flaring to the wind-
To the grave's low hill as to the Matterhorn
That shoulders out the sky."

LINCOLN,

By William Ordway Partridge.

EDWIN MARKHAM,

By William Ordway Partridge.

his country. Such work is necessarily inspiring and uplifting. The lesson of

Hale's devotion should be impressed on the mind of every youth in the land. So also ought the lofty ideal of peace suggested in this late concept of Mr. Partridge, in which the Goddess of Concord is represented as having broken the sword of force.

Our sculptor, in common with the spiritually awakened and the nobly idealistic men of genius everywhere, is a staunch champion of peace and human brotherhood. The Peace statue embodies an idea that is very dear to him and one that he believes is destined to grow with each advancing year until it becomes an allpowerful or dominating ideal throughout the civilized world, in spite of the little men, the materialists and those who see nothing beyond the outward trappings and show of things, who vainly imagine that physical force, great armaments and crushing military burdens are a better protection for a free people than that moral idealism that during the early days of our national life made the Republic the greatest moral world-power in the family of nations.

Boston, Mass.

B. O. FLOWER.