A Lincoln bibliography, compiled by Hon. Daniel Fish, of Minneapolis, was published in 1906 in a superb volume of 247 pages. It contains 1,080 separate titles. Judge Fisk has 854 bound volumes and pamphlets in his own collections.

Mr. D. S. Passavant, of Zelienople, Pa., has a collection of Lincolniana in foreign languages. Lives of Lincoln have been published in the French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Welsh and Hawaiian tongues.

The largest collection of Lincolnian relics as distinguished from printed matter, is that of Mr. O. H. Oldroyd, which is now housed in the building were Lincoln died, 516 Tenth street, Washington City. The largest collection of Lincoln's handwriting in existence is that of Jesse W. Weik, of Greencastle, Indiana. Mr. Weik was the co-laborer of Wm. H. Herndon in writing the life of Abraham Lincoln. Herndon had been Lincoln's law partner at Springfield for many years; and shortly before his death he gave the entire contents of the law office to Mr. Weik.

CONCLUSION.

So we see that Mr. Lincoln's death did not take place at the culmination of his fame, but that it has been rising and widening ever since and shows no signs of abatement. Of no other American of our times can this be said. Can it be said of any other man of the same period in any part of the world? I cannot find in any country a special department of literature collecting around the name of any statesman of the nineteenth century like that which celebrates the name of our martyr President. This mass of literature is produced and collected and cherished because the hearts of men and women go out to Lincoln. It is not mere admiration for his mental and moral qualities, but a silent response to the magnetic influence of his humanity, his unselfish and world-embracing charity. And thus though dead he yet speaketh to men, women and children who never saw him, and so, I think, he will continue to speak to generations yet unborn, world without end, Amen.