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 LIVES: OF THE PRESIDENTS gan. Another gigantic equestrian statue for which the congress appropriated $200,000 is soon to be set up in the National capital. The large collec tion of swords, gold-headed canes, medals, rare coins, and other articles that had been presented to Gen. Grant passed into the possession of Wil liam H. Vanderbilt as security in a financial trans action shortly before the general s death. After that event Mr. Vanderbilt returned the articles to Mrs. Grant, by whom they were given to the United States government, and the entire collection is now in the National museum at Washington. Among the many portraits of the great soldier, perhaps the best are those painted by Healy for the Union league club about 1865, and another executed in Paris in 1877, now in the possession of the family, those painted in 1882 by Le Clear for the White House at Washington and the Calumet club of Chicago, and one executed by Ulke for the U. S. war department where is also to be seen a fine marble bust executed in 1872- 3, by Hiram Powers. General Grant s birthday is now celebrated by pub lic dinners and other entertainments in some of the principal cities of the country, like those of Wash ington and Lincoln. See &quot;Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, from April, 1861, to April, 1865,&quot; by Adam Badeau (3 vols., New York, 1867- 81); &quot;Around the World with General Grant,&quot; by John Russell Young (1880); &quot;Personal