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THE DBWDEY MEDAL.
By the courtesy of the sculptor, Dan
iel C. French, Harper's Weekly is able
to publish the first authentic reproduc
tion of his completed design for the
Dewey medal. The Tiffany company
will cut the dies and strike the medals
in copper 1635 in all.
Upon the obverse is a lifelike present'
ment of the head of Commodore Dewey,
with the following inscription: "The
gift of the people of the United States
to the officers and men ot the Asiatic
Squadron under the command of Com
modore George Dewey." Upon the re
verse, surrounded by the words, "In
memory of the victory of Manila Bay,
May, 1, 1898," is the figure of a young
sailor stripped to the waist, who sits up
on a gun, with the flag across his knees,
and one foot resting upon a swinging
loop of rope. In this beautiful figure
Mr. French has adu.irably embodied
the genius ot the episode in its highest
and purest aspect the spirit ot the
fleet, such as one's imagination may
p'cture it to have been on that memor
able morning, and also the spirit of the
country on whose behalf it was going
jnto action. The chinf characteristic
of the face 1b youth the beauty, confi
dence and pure intention of youth. Tn
the pose of the figure are alertness, fear
loBa uprightness, and the unconscious
grace and composure of aesured
strength. The very dispisition of the
flig is BUggestive. The moment repre
Bented is not the one of victory, but of
preparedness thereto. The flag is not a
menace to the world, nor under the pre
text of its name is a policy of aggrandize
ment foreshadowed. It is safe in the
keepiug of Young America, and when
the cause is right it will be uplifted.
It placiog in the circle secures an
admirable balance between the varied
portious and tne flat ones enjoyable to
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is not one merely ot light and dark, but
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narrow space at the bottom an interest
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