6HANNIBAL By Walter Whyte (247–183 B.C.)
151XENOPHON By Professor J. Pentland Mahaffy (445–354 b.c.)
7SCIPIO AFRICANUS MAJOR (235–183 B.C.)
152THE GRACCHI Extracts from "Cæsar, a Sketch," by James Anthony Froude, LL.D. (164–133, 153–121 b.c.)
8CAIUS MARIUS Extracts from "Cæsar, a Sketch," by James Anthony Froude, LL.D. (157–86 B.C.)
153ZENOBIA, QUEEN OF PALMYRA By Anna Jameson (REIGNED 267–273 a.d.)
9JULIUS CÆSAR By E. Spencer Beesly, M.A. (100–44 B.C.)
154SIEGFRIED By Karl Blind (ABOUT 450)
10MARC ANTONY (83–30 B.C.)
155KING ARTHUR By Rev. S. Baring-Gould (ABOUT 520)
11HERMANN (16 B.C.-21 A.D.)
156ROLAND (740–778)
12TRAJAN By J. S. Reid, Litt.D. (53–117)
157ROLLO THE GANGER By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (860–932)
13DIOCLETIAN (245–313)
158LEIF ERICSON By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (About 1000)
14ALARIC THE BOLD By Archdeacon Farrar, D.D., F.R.S. (360–410)
159HAROLD, KING OF ENGLAND (1022–1066)
15ATTILA By Archdeacon Farrar, D.D., F.R.S. (REIGNED 434–453)
160THE CID By Henry G. Hewlett (1026–1099)
16CLOVIS THE FIRST By Thomas Wyatt, A.M. (465–511)
161ST. BERNARD By Henry G. Hewlett (1091–1153)
17BELISARIUS By Charlotte M. Yonge (505–565)
162FREDERICK BARBAROSSA By Lady Lamb (1121–1190)
18CHARLES MARTEL By Henry G. Hewlett (694–741)
163RICHARD CŒUR DE LION (1157–1199)
19PEPIN THE SHORT By Henry G. Hewlett (714–768)
164ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI By George Parsons Lathrop, LL.D. (1182–1226)
20CHARLEMAGNE By Sir J. Bernard Burke (742–814)
165ST. LOUIS By Henry G. Hewlett (1215–1270)
21OLAF TRYGGVESON Extracts from "Early Kings of Norway," by Thomas Carlyle (955–1000)
166MARCO POLO By Noah Brooks (1256–1324)
22WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR By G. W. Prothero (1027–1087)
167SIR WILLIAM WALLACE (1270–1305)
23GODFREY DE BOUILLON By Henry G. Hewlett (1060–1100)
168ROBERT BRUCE By Sir J. Bernard Burke, LL.D. (1274–1329)
24SALADIN By Walter Besant (1137–1192)
169ARNOLD VON WINKELRIED (DIED, 1386)
25EDWARD I. OF ENGLAND By Thomas Davidson (1239–1307)
170JOAN OF ARC By Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1412–1431)
26EDWARD III. OF ENGLAND (1312–1377)
171HANS GUTENBERG By Alphonse de Lamartine (1400–1468)
27EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE By L. Drake (1330–1376)
172WILLIAM CAXTON (1412–1491)
28BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN (1314–1380)
173CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS By A. R. Spofford, LL.D. (1436–1506)
29HENRY V. OF ENGLAND Extracts from "Memoirs of Great Commanders," by G. P. R. James (1388–1422)
174VASCO DA GAMA By Judge Albion W. Tourgée (1460–1525)
30JOHN HUNIADES By Professor A. Vambéry (1388–1456)
175THE CHEVALIER BAYARD By Herbert Greenhough Smith (1476–1524)
31WARWICK, THE KING-MAKER (1420–1471)
176GUSTAVUS VASA By Charles F. Horne (1496–1560)
32HERNANDO CORTES By H. Rider Haggard (1485–1547)
177MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS By Samuel L. Knapp (1542–1587)
33FRANCISCO PIZARRO By J. T. Trowbridge (1471–1541)
178CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH By Marion Harland (1579–1631)
34GASPARD DE COLIGNI By Professor Creasy (1517–1572)
179WILLIAM HARVEY (1578–1657)
35HENRY IV. OF FRANCE (1553–1610)
180PRINCE CHARLES STUART By Andrew Lang, LL.D. (1720–1788)
36SIR FRANCIS DRAKE (1540–1596)
181CAPTAIN JAMES COOK By Oliver Optic (1728–1779)
37SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1552–1618)
182JOHN HOWARD By Harriet G. Walker (1726–1790)
38MILES STANDISH By Elbridge S. Brooks (1584–1656)
183ETHAN ALLEN By Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham (1738–1789)
39ALBRECHT VON WALLENSTEIN By Henry G. Hewlett (1583–1634)
184BENEDICT ARNOLD By Edgar Fawcett (1741–1801)
40GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1594–1632)
185NATHAN HALE By Rev. Edward Everett Hale (1755–1776)
41MARSHAL TURENNE (1611–1675)
186THADDEUS KOSCIUSKO (1746–1817)
42CHARLES XII. OF SWEDEN By General John Mitchell (1682–1718)
187MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE By William F. Peck (1757–1834)
43JOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH By L. Drake (1650–1722)
188CHARLOTTE CORDAY By Oliver Optic (1768–1793)
44PRINCE EUGENE OF SAVOY By G. P. R. James (1663–1736)
189MADAME ROLAND By Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1754–1793)
45GENERAL JAMES WOLFE By L. Drake (1726–1759)
190MARIE ANTOINETTE By Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen (1755–1793)
46FREDERICK THE GREAT By General John Mitchell (1712–1786)
191ANDREAS HOFER (1767–1810)
47ROBERT, LORD CLIVE By W. C. Taylor, LL.D. (1725–1774)
192QUEEN LOUISE OF PRUSSIA By Mrs. Francis G. Faithfull (1776–1810)
48FRANÇOIS KELLERMANN, MARSHAL OF FRANCE (1735–1820)
193JAMES WATT By John Times, F.S.A. (1736–1819)
49MICHEL NEY, MARSHAL OF FRANCE By Louise Chandler Moulton (1769–1815)
194DR. EDWARD JENNER By John Timbs, F.S.A. (1749–1823)
50NAPOLEON BONAPARTE By Colonel Clayton, R.A. (1769–1821)
195ROBERT FULTON By Oliver Optic (1765–1815)
51ARTHUR, DUKE OF WELLINGTON By L. Drake (1769–1852)
196WILLIAM WILBERFORCE (1759–1833)
52LORD HORATIO NELSON (1758–1805)
197SIR HUMPHRY DAVY By John Timbs, F.S.A. (1778–1829)
53ISRAEL PUTNAM (1718–1790)
198GENERAL SAN MARTIN By Hezekiah Butterworth (1778–1850)
54ANTHONY WAYNE By O. C. Bosbyshell (1745–1796)
199GEORGE STEPHENSON By Professor C. M. Woodward (1781–1848)
55FRANCIS MARION (1732–1795)
200SAMUEL F. B. MORSE (1791–1872)
56PAUL JONES (1747–1792)
201PETER COOPER By Clarence Cook (1791–1883)
57TECUMSEH By James A. Green (1776–1813)
202LOUIS KOSSUTH (1802–1894)
58JAMES LAWRENCE (1781–1813)
203JOHN ERICSSON4 By Martha J. Lamb (1803–1889)
59STEPHEN DECATUR By Edward S. Ellis, A.M. (1779–1820)
204WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON By William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)
60OLIVER HAZARD PERRY (1785–1819)
205ELISHA KENT KANE By General A. W. Greely (1820–1857)
61SAM HOUSTON By Amelia E. Barr (1793–1863)
206FERDINAND DE LESSEPS By Clarence Cook (1805–1894)
62WINFIELD SCOTT By Hon. Theodore Roosevelt (1786–1866)
207GENERAL JOHN C. FRÉMONT By Jane Marsh Parker (1813–1890)
63ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT By Oliver Optic (1822–1885)
208DAVID LIVINGSTONE By Professor W. G. Blaikie, LL.D. (1813–1873)
64WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN By Elbridge S. Brooks (1820–1891)
209CYRUS W. FIELD By Murat Halstead (1819–1892)
65PHILIP HENRY SHERIDAN (1831–1888)
210QUEEN VICTORIA By Donald Macleod, D.D. (BORN 1819–1901)
66ROBERT EDMUND LEE By General Viscount Wolseley (1807–1870)
211FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE By Lizzie Alldridge (BORN 1820)
67THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON By Marion Harland (1826–1863)
212DR. LOUIS PASTEUR By Dr. Cyrus Edson (1822–1895)
68DAVID GLASCOE FARRAGUT By L. P. Brockett, A.M. (1801–1870)
213GENERAL CHARLES GEORGE GORDON By Colonel R. H. Veitch, R.E. 1833–1885
69DAVID DIXON PORTER (1814–1891)
214GENERAL GEORGE A. CUSTER By Elbridge S. Brooks (1839–1876)
70GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI (1807–1882)
215HENRY M. STANLEY By Noah Brooks (BORN 1841)
71FIELD-MARSHAL COUNT VON MOLTKE (1800–1891)
216THOMAS ALVA EDISON By Clarence Cook (Born 1847)
72GEORGE DEWEY By Major-General Joseph Wheeler (Born 1837)
217ARTISTS AND AUTHORS
73STATESMEN AND SAGES
218HOMER By William Ewart Gladstone (ABOUT 1000 B.C.)
74MOSES By Henry George (1571–1451 B.C.)
219PLATO Extracts from "Plato," by George Grote, F.R.S. (427–347 B.C.)
75DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL By Margaret E. Sangster (1074–1001 B.C.)
220VIRGIL (70–19 B.C.)
76SOLOMON By Rev. Charles F. Deems (1033–975 B.C.)
221HORACE By J. W. Mackail (65–8 B.C.)
77LYCURGUS By Rev. Joseph T. Duryea (About 884–820 B.C.)
222DANTE By Archdeacon Farrar, D.D., F.R.S. (1265–1321)
78THEMISTOCLES (514–449 B.C.)
223PETRARCH By Alice King (1304–1374)
79PERICLES (499–429 B.C.)
224GEOFFREY CHAUCER By Alice King (1328–1400)
80SOCRATES From the French of Fénelon (468–399 B.C.)
225TORQUATO TASSO (1544–1595)
81DIOGENES From the French of Fénelon (412–323 B.C.)
226CERVANTES By Joseph Forster (1547–1616)
82DEMOSTHENES By E. Benjamin Andrews, Pres't of Brown University. (385–322 B.C.)
227WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE By Senator John J. Ingalls (1564–1616)
83ARISTOTLE From the French of Fénelon (384–322 B.C.)
228MOLIÈRE Extracts from "Molière," by Sir Walter Scott (1622–1673)
84ARCHIMEDES By John Timbs, F.S.A. (287–212 B.C.)
229JOHN MILTON (1608–1674)
85MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO By Rev. W. J. Brodribb (106–43 B.C.)
230JOHN BUNYAN By John Greenleaf Whittier (1628–1688)
86AUGUSTUS CÆSAR (63 B.C.−14 A.D.)
231DANIEL DEFOE By Clark Russell (1661–1731)
87ST. AMBROSE By Rev. A. A. Lambing, LL.D. (340–397)
232DEAN SWIFT By Samuel Archer (1667–1745)
88ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO By His Eminence James, Cardinal Gibbons (354–430)
233ALEXANDER POPE By Austin Dorson (1688–1744)
89ST. PATRICK By Rev. G. F. Maclear, B.D. (ABOUT 372–466)
234VOLTAIRE By M. C. Lockwood, D.D. (1694–1778)
90JUSTINIAN THE GREAT (483–565)
235SAMUEL JOHNSON1 By Lord Macaulay (1709–1784)
91ST. AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY By Rt. Rev. Henry Codman Potter, Bishop of New York (DIED, 604)
236THOMAS CHATTERTON By Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston (1752–1770)
92MAHOMET (571–632)
237ROBERT BURNS By Will Carleton (1759–1796)
93ALFRED THE GREAT By Sir J. Bernard Burke, LL.D. (849–901)
238SCHILLER By B. L. Farjeon (1759–1805)
94JOHN HUSS By Rev. Dr. Tweedie (1373–1415)
239GOETHE By Rev. Edward Everett Hale (1749–1832)
95LOUIS XI. OF FRANCE By E. Spencer Beesly, M.A. (1423–1483.)
240SIR WALTER SCOTT By W. C. Taylor, LL.D. (1771–1832)
96ISABELLA OF CASTILE By Sarah H. Killikelly (1451–1504)
241WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770–1850)
97NICHOLAS COPERNICUS By John Stoughton, D.D. (1473–1543)
242WASHINGTON IRVING (1783–1859)
98MARTIN LUTHER (1483–1546)
243JAMES FENIMORE COOPER By President Charles F. Thwing (1789–1851)
99CHARLES V. OF GERMANY (1500–1558)
244WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT5 By Richard Henry Stoddard (1794–1878)
100JOHN CALVIN (1509–1564)
245THOMAS CARLYLE By W. Wallace (1795–1881)
101JOHN KNOX By P. Hume Brown (1505–1572)
246VICTOR HUGO By Margaret O. W. Oliphant (1802–1885)
102ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND By Samuel L. Knapp (1533–1603)
247RALPH WALDO EMERSON By Moncure D. Conway (1803–1882)
103FRANCIS BACON By Hon. Ignatius Donnelly (1561–1626)
248HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW By Hezekiah Butterworth (1807–1882)
104GALILEO-GALILEI (1564–1642)
249ALFRED TENNYSON By Clarence Cook (1809–1892)
105CARDINAL RICHELIEU (1585–1642)
250CHARLES DICKENS By Walter Besant (1812–1870)
106WILLIAM BRADFORD By Elbridge S. Brooks (1589–1657)
251ROBERT BROWNING (1812–1889)
107CHARLES I. OF ENGLAND By F. Hindes Groome (1600–1649)
252OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES By Frances H. Underwood (1809–1894)
108OLIVER CROMWELL Extracts from "The History of England," by Thomas B. Macaulay (1599–1658)
253PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS
109FREDERICK, THE GREAT ELECTOR (1620–1688)
254PHIDIAS By Clarence Cook (ABOUT 500–432 B.C.)
110LOUIS XIV. By Oliver Optic (1638–1715)
255LEONARDO DA VINCI By Anna Jameson (1452–1519)
111WILLIAM PENN (1644–1718)
256MICHAEL ANGELO By Anna Jameson (1474–1564)
112WILLIAM III. OF ENGLAND (1650–1702)
257RAPHAEL By Mrs. Lee (1483–1520)
113ISAAC NEWTON By John Stoughton, D.D. (1642–1727)
258TITIAN By Giorgio Vasari1 1477–1576
114PETER THE GREAT (1672–1725)
259ALBERT DÜRER By W. J. Holland, Chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania (1471–1528)
115MARIA THERESA By Anna C. Brackett (1717–1780)
260RUBENS By Mrs. Lee (1577–1640)
116EDMUND BURKE By Dr. Heinrich Geffcken (1730–1797)
261REMBRANDT By Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1606–1669)
117BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706–1790)
262WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697–1764)
118PATRICK HENRY By General Bradley T. Johnson (1736–1799)
263SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS By Samuel Archer (1723–1792)
119GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732–1799)
264BENJAMIN WEST By Martha J. Lamb2 (1738–1820)
120JOHN ADAMS By Edwin Williams (1735–1826)
265THORWALDSEN By Hans Christian Andersen (1770–1844)
121THOMAS JEFFERSON By Hon. John B. Henderson (1743–1826)
266JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET By Clarence Cook (1814–1875)
122ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1757–1804)
267MEISSONIER By Clarence Cook (1813–1891)
123COUNT DE MIRABEAU By Charles S. Hathaway (1749–1791)
268ROSA BONHEUR By Clarence Cook (BORN 1822)
124MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE (1758–1794)
269GÉRÔME By Clarence Cook (BORN 1824)
125JEAN HENRI PESTALOZZI By Harriet Martineau (1746–1827)
270DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI By Edmund Gosse (1828–1882)
126GEORGES CUVIER By John Stoughton, D.D. (1769–1832)
271GUSTAVE DORÉ3 By Kenyon Cox (1832–1883)
127ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT2 By Louis Agassiz (1769–1859)
272COMPOSERS
128DANIEL O'CONNELL By Justin McCarthy (1775–1847)
273HANDEL By C. E. Bourne (1685–1759)
129SIMON BOLIVAR By Hon. John P. St. John (1783–1830)
274MOZART By C. E. Bourne (1756–1791)
130JEAN FRANÇOIS CHAMPOLLION By Georg Ebers (1790–1832)
275HAYDN By C. E. Bourne (1732–1809)
131ANDREW JACKSON3 By Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1767–1845)
276BEETHOVEN By C. E. Bourne (1770–1827)
132DANIEL WEBSTER By Rev. Dr. Tweedie (1782–1852)
277PAGANINI (1784–1840)
133WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD By Hon. Charles E. Fitch (1801–1872)
278MENDELSSOHN By C. E. Bourne (1809–1847)
134ABRAHAM LINCOLN By Terence Vincent Powderly (1809–1865)
279FRANZ LISZT By Rev. Hugh R. Haweis, M.A. (1811–1886)
135HORACE GREELEY By Noah Brooks (1811–1872)
280RICHARD WAGNER By Franklin Peterson, Mus. Bac. (1813–1883)
136LOUIS AGASSIZ4 By Asa Gray (1807–1873)
281GIUSEPPE VERDI (BORN 1813)
137CHARLES DARWIN Extracts from "Life and Letters of Charles Darwin," by Arch. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S. (1809–1882)
282DRAMATIC AND LYRIC ARTISTS
138LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS (1797–1877)
283DAVID GARRICK By Samuel Archer (1716–1779)
139LÉON GAMBETTA (1838–1882)
284EDWIN FORREST5 By Lawrence Barrett (1806–1872)
140BENJAMIN DISRAELI By Harriet Prescott Spofford (1804–1881)
285CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN By Dutton Cook (1816–1876)
141WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE By Justin McCarthy (Born 1809)
286RACHEL By Dutton Cook (1821–1858)
142PRINCE VON BISMARCK6 By Prince Outisky (1815–1898)
287EDWIN BOOTH By Clarence Cook (1833–1893)
143CHARLES STEWART PARNELL By Thomas Davidson (1846–1891)
288JOSEPH JEFFERSON By Clarence Cook (BORN 1829)
144WILLIAM McKINLEY By Rossiter Johnson (1843–1901)
289ADELINA PATTI By Frederick F. Buffen (BORN 1843)
145GROVER CLEVELAND By Clarence Cook (BORN 1837)
290SARAH BERNHARDT By H. S. Edwards (BORN 1844): AMONG THE SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS WORK ARE: