Identifier: vinniereamprinte00hoxi (find matches)
Title: Vinnie Ream : printed for private distribution only; and to preserve a few souvenirs of artist life from 1865 to 1878
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hoxie, R. L. (Richard Leveridge), 1844-1930
Subjects: Ream, Vinnie, 1847-1914 Sculptors
Publisher: (Washington, D.C.) : (Press of Gibson Bros.)
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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d apaper, in the form of a papyrus, on whose folds can be read words referring to the abolition ofslavery. He looks at the document and one can almost read his intention to consign to that solemnact his future fame and immortality, being sure of the judgment which the nation would put uponhim that he deserved well of his country, for he sacrificed his life to the duty of that office andof that mission which was entrusted to him. Congress passed an Act that his statue in marbleshould be placed in the large hall of the Capitol in Washington, which is the seat of governmentof the American nation. A brilliant career in art attends Miss Vinnie Ream, who, so young, has produced the greatwork we have described. But another occasion so favorable may not return to the fair artist totransmit to posterity her name, where, associated with the name of Lincoln, and with the greatact of the emancipation of the slaves, her work will be placed in the Capitol at Washington. 8 \) ^ ,1 / \-i • i ./If ,
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Atttertra Utitmr firam, St., IBEB-S. .\ ^-1 (From Reminiscences of my childhood and youth—George Brandes.) Vines twine round the fruit-trees; black pigs and their families make their appearance intribes; the lake of Thrasymene, near which Hannibal defeated the Romans, spreads itself outbefore us. The train is going from Florence to Rome. Towards mid-day a girl enters the car-riage, apparendy English or North American, with brown eyes and brown hair, that curls naturallyabout her head; she has her guitar case in her hand, and flings it up into the net. Her parentsfollow her. As there is room in the compartment for forty-eight persons without crowding, shearranges places for her parents, and after much laughter and joking the latter settle off to sleep.The Italians stare at her; but not I. I sit with my back to her. She sits down, back to back withme, then turns her head and asks me, in Italian, some question about time, place, or the like. Ireply as best I can. She (in English): You

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