From what we have heard, we believe that Mr. C.
P. Taft, one of the supporters of the Barnard statue, is an art collector of excep- tional discrimination. We have also heard it said that Mr. Roosevelt was overwhelmed by the vigour of the Barnard statue. It represents Lincoln with his hands folded acmes his body in a highly charac- teristic attitude, and it shows, in the rather ungainly fit of the clothes and the size of the hands and feet, the man as he lived and moved and had his being—a true man of the people whose exterior made more wonderful the harmonies of thought and language which pro- ceeded from within. If Mr. Roosevelt was not moved without a cause (and we suspect he was not) this statue represents democracy idealized in the figure of a man who summed up all the great natural qualities and native wit of the Anglo-Saxon race—a man who truly believed, and proved in himself, that government should come from the people and be of the people and for the people.
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