III LITTERATEURS: AMERICAN WRITERS 63
Sherwood Anderson
William D. Howells
Lafcadio Hearn
Mark Twain
Henry Thoreau
Henry James
IV LITTERATEURS: FOREIGN WRITERS 98
Anatole France
Sainte-Beuve
Leonid Andreyev
Joseph Conrad
John Donne
Thomas Burke
Robert Louis Stevenson
V POETS 147
Alfred Kreymborg
William Blake
John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
Arthur Rimbaud
VI WARRIORS 179
Lord Wolseley
Robert E. Lee
VII EDITORS 188
Edward P. Mitchell
Edward W. Bok
Joseph Pulitzer
J. St. Loe Strachey
VIII CLERGYMEN 202
Dr. Frank Crane
W. J. Dawson
IX ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS 212
Walter Damrosch
Irving Berlin
Maria Jeritza
Emil Fuchs
X ACTORS AND ACTRESSES 225
Eleonora Duse
Charles Hawtrey
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Otis Skinner
George Cohan
The Unsuccessful Actor
Weber and Fields
XI STATESMEN 242
Woodrow Wilson
Brigham Young
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
XII EDUCATORS 277
Sir William Osler
G. Stanley Hall
XIII PRIZE FIGHTERS 291
John L. Sullivan
James J. Corbett
XIV FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY 300
Ariel
The Divine Lady
The Nightingale
XV MISCELLANEOUS 308
A. Henry Savage Landor
Eric Horne
XVI THE LADIES 314
Madame Récamier
Rebekah Kohut
Kathleen Norris
Rheta Childe Dorr
Yang Kuei-Fei
BOOKS CITED 331
INDEX 337
PORTRAITS
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MARK TWAIN 74
ANATOLE FRANCE 98
Courtesy of Edward Wassermann
THOMAS BURKE 136
JOHN KEATS IN HIS LAST ILLNESS 158
By permission of “The Century Magazine”
JOSEPH PULITZER 196
Courtesy of “The New York World”
WALTER DAMROSCH 212
Photograph by Gutekunst
ELEONORA DUSE 226
BRIGHAM YOUNG 252
Courtesy of Harcourt, Brace & Co.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER 278
Reprinted from “The Annals of Medical History”
J. J. CORBETT 296
By permission of G. P. Putnam’s Sons
LADY HAMILTON AS CIRCE 302
Courtesy of Dodd, Mead & Co.
MME. RÉCAMIER 314