combed and brushed down with something like youthful vanity, and he has a smooth, bright, rather handsome face, and without sunken cheeks, strikingly resembling in contour and the shape of the head some of the early portraits of Ralph Waldo Emerson.  It looks, however, as if it had been taken at an earlier age than forty.  As the only portrait of Lincoln with a comparatively young face it will be treasured by all his admirers, and his son has conferred a distinct benefit by his courtesy in allowing it to be reproduced.

There are numerous other portraits, among them those of the Rev. Jesse Head, who married Lincoln’s father and mother; of Austin Gollaher, who was a boy friend of Lincoln in Kentucky, and the only one now living; of his step-mother, Sarah Bush Lincoln; of Josiah Crawford, whom Lincoln served in Indiana as “hired boy;” of the well-known Dennis Hanks, cousin of Lincoln’s mother; of John Hanks, also a cousin; of Judge John Pitcher, who assisted Lincoln in his earliest studies; and of Joseph Gentry, the only boy associate of Lincoln in Indiana now living.  These portraits, in addition to the numerous views of scenes connected with Lincoln’s boyhood, add greatly to the interest of the text.  Mr. McClure, the proprietor of the magazine, is certainly to be congratulated upon the successful manner in which he has launched the opening chapters of the new “Life of Lincoln.”  The remaining ones, running a whole year, will be awaited with keen interest.  It is said that Miss Tarbell has found and obtained a shorthand report of his unpublished but famous speech delivered at Bloomington, May 29, 1856, before the first Republican State convention ever held in Illinois.  This is a great find and a very important addition to his published speeches.  Many of those who heard it have always claimed that it was the most eloquent speech he ever made.

In an editorial in the “Standard-Union” of Brooklyn, Mr. Murat Halstead expresses the general feeling of all who knew Lincoln: 

The magazine gives an admirable engraving of this portrait as the frontispiece, as “The earliest portrait of Abraham Lincoln, from a daguerreotype taken when Lincoln was about forty; owned by his son, the Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, through whose courtesy it is here reproduced for the first time.”  This is a very modest statement, considering the priceless discovery it announces.  The portrait does not show a man “about forty” years old in appearance.  “About” thirty would be the general verdict, if it were not that the daguerreotype was unknown when Lincoln was of that age.  It does not seem, however, that he could have been more than thirty-five, and for that age the youthfulness of the portrait is wonderful.  This is a new Lincoln, and far more attractive, in a sense, than anything the public has possessed.  This is the portrait of a remarkably handsome man....  The head is magnificent, the eyes deep and generous, the mouth sensitive, the whole