Edited by President David Starr Jordan.
Count Rumford and Josiah Willard Gibbs, by E. E. Slosson; Alexander Wilson and Audubon, by Witmer Stone; Silliman, by Daniel C. Gilman; Joseph Henry, by Simon Newcomb; Louis Agassiz and Spencer Fullerton Baird, by Charles F. Holder; Jeffries Wyman, by B. G. Wilder; Asa Gray, by John M. Coulter; James Dwight Dana, by William North Rice; Marsh, by Geo. Bird Grinnell; Edward Drinker Cope, by Marcus Benjamin; Simon Newcomb, by Marcus Benjamin; George Brown Goode, by D. S. Jordan; Henry Augustus Rowland, by Ira Remsen; William Keith Brooks, by E. A. Andrews.
GEORGE ILES’S LEADING AMERICAN INVENTORS
By the author of “Inventors at Work,” etc. Colonel John Stevens (screw-propeller, etc.); his son, Robert (T-rail, etc.); Fulton; Ericsson; Whitney; Blanchard (lathe); McCormick; Howe; Goodyear; Morse; Tilghman (paper from wood and sand blast); Sholes (typewriter); and Mergenthaler (linotype).
Other Volumes covering Lawyers, Poets, Statesmen, Editors, Explorers, etc., arranged for. Leaflet on application.
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Julien Benda’s THE YOKE OF PITY
The author grips and never lets go of the single theme (which presents itself more or less acutely to many people)—the duel between a passionate devotion to a career and the claims of love, pity, and domestic responsibility.