Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN
CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
WORKMEN AND HEROES
HERCULES By Charlotte M. Yonge
THESEUS
ULYSSES[1] By Charles F. Horne
ÆNEAS By Charlotte M. Yonge
XENOPHON[2] By Professor J. Pentland Mahaffy (445-354 b.c.)
THE GRACCHI Extracts from "Cæsar, a Sketch," by James Anthony Froude, LL.D. (164-133, 153-121 b.c.)
ZENOBIA, QUEEN OF PALMYRA By Anna Jameson (REIGNED 267-273 a.d.)
SIEGFRIED[3] By Karl Blind (ABOUT 450)
KING ARTHUR By Rev. S. Baring-Gould (ABOUT 520)
ROLAND (740-778)
ROLLO THE GANGER[4] By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (860-932)
LEIF ERICSON[5] By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (About 1000)
HAROLD, KING OF ENGLAND (1022-1066)
THE CID By Henry G. Hewlett (1026-1099)
ST. BERNARD By Henry G. Hewlett (1091-1153)
FREDERICK BARBAROSSA By Lady Lamb (1121-1190)
RICHARD CŒUR DE LION (1157-1199)
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI[6] By George Parsons Lathrop, LL.D. (1182-1226)
ST. LOUIS By Henry G. Hewlett (1215-1270)
MARCO POLO[7] By Noah Brooks (1256-1324)
SIR WILLIAM WALLACE (1270-1305)
ROBERT BRUCE By Sir J. Bernard Burke, LL.D. (1274-1329)
ARNOLD VON WINKELRIED (DIED, 1386)
JOAN OF ARC[8] By Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1412-1431)
HANS GUTENBERG By Alphonse de Lamartine (1400-1468)
WILLIAM CAXTON (1412-1491)
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS[9] By A. R. Spofford, LL.D. (1436-1506)
VASCO DA GAMA[10] By Judge Albion W. Tourgée (1460-1525)
THE CHEVALIER BAYARD By Herbert Greenhough Smith (1476-1524)
GUSTAVUS VASA[11] By Charles F. Horne (1496-1560)
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS By Samuel L. Knapp (1542-1587)
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH[12] By Marion Harland (1579-1631)
WILLIAM HARVEY (1578-1657)
PRINCE CHARLES STUART[13] By Andrew Lang, LL.D. (1720-1788)
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK[14] By Oliver Optic (1728-1779)
JOHN HOWARD[15] By Harriet G. Walker (1726-1790)
ETHAN ALLEN[16] By Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham (1738-1789)
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