ILLUSTRATIONS

Oscar S. Straus[Frontispiece]
Photograph by the Campbell Studios, New York
Mother and Father of Oscar S. Straus[2]
Birthplace of Oscar S. Straus, Otterberg, Rhenish Bavaria[8]
Chapel and Schoolhouse, Collinsworth Institute, Talbotton, Georgia[8]
Oscar S. Straus at Six[12]
Oscar S. Straus at the Time of his Graduation[28]
Letter of Henry Ward Beecher to President Cleveland[46]
Mrs. Straus in Turkey[62]
Testimonial given to Mr. Straus in Jerusalem in Appreciation of the Release of Several Hundred Prisoners[84]
Oscar S. Straus, Constantinople, 1888[96]
President McKinley sending the Author to Turkey on his Second Mission, 1898[124]
Members of the Railway Board of Administration[200]
The Roosevelt Cabinet[216]
Mrs. Oscar S. Straus[246]
Nathan, Oscar, and Isidor Straus[312]
Photograph by Pirie MacDonald, New York, 1912
Roger W. Straus[392]