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Title: Lincoln centennial number
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 Presidents
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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there in the night, and called im-mediately on my friend, who, they told me,was in an adjoining house. There I foundhim paying court to the most beautifulcreature in the world. I slept in his 590 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE room, and the following morning I awoketo the blessed charm of Rome. The fascination of the Holy City as Istepped into the street the first time thatmorning, can be appreciated only by thosewho have lived there. Coming so soonafter the misery of the gray, bleak wea-ther of France, the war and its disaster,and the terrible Mediterranean trip, itseemed all the more exalting. As I turned beauty of surrounding nature than thatwhich existed in France came over me, sothat the classic charm of the Campagna,of the Sabine Mountains, of Tivoli, ofAlbano, and of Frascati, was by no meanslost on me during my frequent Sunday tripsto these places with my acquaintances. The sense of that charm stayed withmy father all his life, and led him to be-come one of the most earnest workers for
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AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS From a photograph sent from Rome in the sixtiesOwned by Mrs. D. J. McDonald. the corner from the Via Sistina, where myfriend lived, and looked up the Via PortaPinciana, the .first view of a stone-pine atthe head of the street appeared incompara-bly beautiful in the gentle welcome whichseemed to pervade it all. It was as if adoor had been thrown wide open to theeternal beauty of the classical. There-fore though the story of my life in Pariswas repeated while in Rome in so far thatmy enthusiasm for my work made meneglect the earning of pennies to such anextent that I was down at the heels mostof the time, a greater appreciation of the the endowed American Academy in Rome,now established in the Villa Mirafiori. Itwas the remembrance of those days whichinduced him to direct one of the few pub-lic speeches he ever made, toward helpingAmerican youth to that wonderful spot,which, void of all business cares, shouldtend to an earnest and more thoroughtraining of those wh

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