CONTENTS
| Part I: BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY | ||
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| I | Biography | 15 |
| II | Autobiography | 43 |
| Part II: INTERPRETATIONS | ||
| III | Litterateurs: American Writers | 63 |
| Sherwood Anderson William D. Howells Lafcadio Hearn Mark Twain Henry Thoreau Henry James |
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| IV | Litterateurs: Foreign Writers | 98 |
| Anatole France Sainte-Beuve Leonid Andreyev Joseph Conrad John Donne Thomas Burke Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| V | Poets | 147 |
| Alfred Kreymborg William Blake John Keats Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Rimbaud |
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| VI | Warriors | 179 |
| Lord Wolseley Robert E. Lee |
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| VII | Editors | 188 |
| Edward P. Mitchell Edward W. Bok Joseph Pulitzer J. St. Loe Strachey |
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| VIII | Clergymen | 202 |
| Dr. Frank Crane W. J. Dawson |
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| IX | Artists and Musicians | 212 |
| Walter Damrosch Irving Berlin Maria Jeritza Emil Fuchs |
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| X | Actors and Actresses | 225 |
| Eleonora Duse Charles Hawtrey Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson Otis Skinner George Cohan The Unsuccessful Actor Weber and Fields |
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| XI | Statesmen | 242 |
| Woodrow Wilson Brigham Young Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt |
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| XII | Educators | 277 |
| Sir William Osler G. Stanley Hall |
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| XIII | Prize Fighters | 291 |
| John L. Sullivan James J. Corbett |
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| XIV | Fictional Biography | 300 |
| Ariel The Divine Lady The Nightingale |
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| XV | Miscellaneous | 308 |
| A. Henry Savage Landor Eric Horne |
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| XVI | The Ladies | 314 |
| Madame Récamier Rebekah Kohut Kathleen Norris Rheta Childe Dorr Yang Kuei-Fei |
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| Books Cited | 331 | |
| Index | 337 |