Show HKPERS Magazine for April is exceptionally excep-tionally good and contains as a frontispiece I frontis-piece a fine portrait of Abraham Lincoln j from a photograph in the possession of I W P Garrison Esq It is doubtless intended in-tended as a rival to the Daniel Webster in the Century for March and if so is in all ways successful The portrait shows what is so characteristic of all Americans who have been exceptionally strong in stormy timesthe large rather coarse but firm set mouth It was the same in Washington it is the same in Grant and is entirely different from the finely cut mouths of the heroes of English freedom W H Russell Bull Run Russell has a very entertaining article on The Prince of Wales at Sandringham It is well illustrated and the portraits are very life like those of the Prince and his son i Albert Victor being better than that of I the Princess one of the most beautiful and charming women of Europe The illustration on page 762 of the Princess driving past Alexandra Cottages will recall her to many as they have seen her driving down Piccadilly to Hyde Park Corner with only her little girls and a single footman It is the Princess not the Prince who makes royalty respected in England The number also contains an opportune article on Fly Fishing |