is in the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, and a bas-relief replica has been secured for the gold room of the Metropolitan Museum in New York; a second replica has been placed in the Imperial Museum at Berlin. Another charming creation of the artist's is the representation on a christening medal of the birth of a child. The Goddess of Life is shown floating from the clouds, dropping the infant into the cradle, and then drifting away into space. Monsieur Roiné served in the Paris Exposition of 1900 as a member of the Jury on Art. The art critics who have examined the Lincoln medal are at one in the opinion that it must remain the authoritative medallic representation of the great American. The selections made from Lincoln's own utterances are those which are, on one ground or another, most representative of the character and high ideals of the man and of the methods of action of the great leader. The copies of the medal produced for this volume have been struck under the instructions of Mr. Robert Hewitt, the well-known collector of medallicLincolniana, who is the owner of the copyright. Contents PAGE 57 |