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[Illustration: Columbus before Isabella.]




GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN


_A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of_

THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN HISTORY


VOL. V.




Copyright, 1894, BY SELMAR HESS

edited by Charles F. Horne

[Illustration: Publisher's arm.]

New-York: Selmar Hess Publisher


Copyright, 1894, by SELMAR HESS.




CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.


  SUBJECT                         AUTHOR                          PAGE

  AENEAS,                      _Charlotte M. Yonge_,                 12
  ETHAN ALLEN,                _Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham_,   200
  KING ARTHUR,                _Rev. S. Baring-Gould_,               36
  THE CHEVALIER BAYARD,       _Herbert Greenhough Smith_,          145
  ST. BERNARD,                _Henry G. Hewlett_,                   60
  ROBERT BRUCE,               _Sir J. Bernard Burke, LL.D._,       105
  WILLIAM CAXTON,                                                  129
  THE CID,                    _Henry G. Hewlett_,                   56
  CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS,       _A. R. Spofford, LL.D._,             131
  CAPTAIN JAMES COOK,         _Oliver Optic_,                      188
  ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI,      _George Parsons Lathrop, LL.D._,      78
  FREDERICK BARBAROSSA,       _Lady Lamb_,                          65
  VASCO DA GAMA,              _Judge Albion W. Tourgee_,           139
  THE GRACCHI,                _James Anthony Froude, LL.D._,        20
  GUSTAVUS VASA,              _Charles F. Horne_,                  153
  HANS GUTENBERG,             _Alphonse de Lamartine_,             121
  HAROLD, KING OF ENGLAND,                                          54
  WILLIAM HARVEY,                                                  172
  HERCULES,                   _Charlotte M. Yonge_,                  1
  JOHN HOWARD,                _Harriet G. Walker_,                 194
  JOAN OF ARC,                _Ella Wheeler Wilcox_,               113
  LEIF ERICSON,               _Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen_,             49
  ST. LOUIS,                  _Henry G. Hewlett_,                   86
  MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS,       _Samuel L. Knapp_,                   159
  MARCO POLO,                 _Noah Brooks_,                        92
  RICHARD COEUR DE LION,                                            71
  ROLAND,                                                           39
  ROLLO THE GANGER,           _Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen_,             44
  SIEGFRIED,                  _Karl Blind_,                         31
  CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH,         _Marion Harland_,                    166
  PRINCE CHARLES STUART,      _Andrew Lang, LL.D._,                177
  THESEUS,                                                           5
  ULYSSES,                    _Charles F. Horne_,                    7
  SIR WILLIAM WALLACE,                                             100
  ARNOLD VON WINKELRIED,                                           111
  XENOPHON,                   _Professor J. Pentland Mahaffy_,      15
  ZENOBIA, QUEEN OF PALMYRA,  _Anna Jameson_,                       26




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME V.


PHOTOGRAVURES

  ILLUSTRATION                           ARTIST              TO FACE PAGE

  COLUMBUS BEFORE ISABELLA,              _Vacslav Brozik_   _Frontispiece_
  ULYSSES DEFYING THE CYCLOPS,           _Louis-Frederic
                                           Schutzenberger_          10
  THE MOTHER OF THE GRACCHI,             _Gustave Boulanger_        20
  LEIF ERICSON OFF THE COAST OF
    VINELAND,                            _O. A. Wergeland_          52
  THE VISION OF ST. BERNARD,             _Wilhelm Bernatzik_        62
  THE DEATH OF BARBAROSSA,               _Wilhelm Beckmann_         70
  LOUIS IX. OPENS THE JAILS OF FRANCE,   _Luc Olivier Merson_       90
  ARNOLD WINKELRIED AT SEMPACH,          _Konrad Grob_             112
   JOAN OF ARC,                          _Mme. Zoe-Laure de
                                           Chatillon_              118
  MARY STUART AND RIZZIO,                _Georg Conrader_          162




WOOD-ENGRAVINGS AND TYPOGRAVURES


  HERCULES AT THE FEET OF OMPHALE,       _J. E. Dantan_              4
  TRIBUTE TO THE MINOTAUR,               _A. Gendron_                6
  ZENOBIA CAPTIVE,                       _H. Schmalz_               26
  SIEGFRIED SLAYING THE DRAGON,          _K. Dielitz_               32
  THE RUINS OF KING ARTHUR'S CASTLE,     _Percy Dixon_              38
  ROLAND AT RONCESVALLES,                _Alphonse de Neuville_     42
  ROLLO THE RANGER ATTACKS PARIS,        _Alphonse de Neuville_     46
  EDITH SEARCHING FOR THE BODY OF
    HAROLD,                              _Alphonse de Neuville_     56
  THE CID ORDERING THE EXECUTION OF
    AHMED,                               _Alphonse de Neuville_     58
  RICHARD COEUR DE LION ON THE FIELD
    OF ARSUR,                            _Gustave Dore_             74
  THE VISION OF ST. FRANCIS,             _Chartran_                 84
  THE EDUCATION OF LOUIS IX.,            _Chartran_                 86
  GUTENBERG'S INVENTION,                 _E. Hillemacher_          126
  THE FIRST SHEET FROM CAXTON'S PRESS,   _E. H. Wehnert_           130
  COLUMBUS RIDICULED AT THE COUNCIL OF
    SALAMANCA,                           _Nicolo Barabino_         134
