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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a biographical essay
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) DLC Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Bartlett, Truman Howe, 1835-1923 Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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iew of individual character, as an original andinteresting piece of facial construction, and ad-mired for the harmony of the face with itself.There was no reference to ugliness, coarseness, orflabbiness of form. It was the same with the pho-tographs shown to them. A short detailed review of the mask would besomething like this: a projecting face with un-usual vigor and contrasts of planes; long, large,protruding ears; strong, angular lower jaw, andhigh chin; all lines of face muscular or bony,strongly, firmly, and delicately marked; the fore-head wrinkled to the roots of the hair; the full-ness above and immediately back of the templesvery rich and firm, giving not only an importantcontrast to the line of the face below, but finish-ing that part of the head with a commanding formand outline. The profile is also unusual, in the character ofthe lines and in their construction: first, the fullline of the forehead, carried from the top of thenose upward; second, the projecting nose, prac-
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t^JSjVH : //,i.i/,- <;i /•/ ABRAHAM LINCOLN 23 tically straight, and the distance from its endback to the upper lip, which is rather more thanan eighth of an inch greater than with ordinarynoses. The nose is thick in its body and wide onthe top when looked at in front, and thus helpsto make a harmonious face, because it catches somuch light. The distance from the top of thenose, when seen in profile, to the inner cornerof the eye, is again unusual. The end of the noseappears almost blunt, but its outline, when care-fully examined, is very delicate. The skin, so faras can be judged from a somewhat worn mask, isnot marked into small sections as in most skins,but is comparatively smooth, and indented withlittle holes, like enlarged pores. The firmness ofthe skin and muscles is evidenced by the correct-ness of the forms of the mask, as there is not theslightest indication that there was any change inthem made by the weight of the plaster. Thesurface-forms of the forehead present an e

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