CONTENTS
HEROES OF REALITY
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | Buddha | [ 1] |
| II | Julius Cæsar | [ 12] |
| III | Saint Patrick | [ 26] |
| IV | King Arthur of Britain | [ 33] |
| V | Mohammed | [ 42] |
| VI | Alfred the Great | [ 52] |
| VII | Robin Hood | [ 65] |
| VIII | Saint Elizabeth of Hungary | [ 72] |
| IX | Dante | [ 80] |
| X | Robert Bruce | [ 89] |
| XI | Jeanne d'Arc | [ 100] |
| XII | Christopher Columbus | [ 114] |
| XIII | William the Silent | [ 127] |
| XIV | Queen Elizabeth of England | [ 137] |
| XV | Sir Francis Drake | [ 146] |
| XVI | Henry Hudson | [ 156] |
| XVII | Peter the Great | [ 165] |
| XVIII | George Washington | [ 172] |
| XIX | John Paul Jones | [ 187] |
| XX | Molly Pitcher | [ 196] |
| XXI | Napoleon Bonaparte | [ 201] |
| XXII | Giuseppe Garibaldi | [ 216] |
| XXIII | Abraham Lincoln | [ 223] |
| XXIV | Grace Darling | [ 236] |
| XXV | Florence Nightingale | [ 241] |
| XXVI | Father Damien | [ 248] |
| XXVII | Catherine Breshkovsky | [ 254] |
| XXVIII | Theodore Roosevelt | [ 262] |
| XXIX | Edith Cavell | [ 272] |
| XXX | King Albert of Belgium | [ 278] |
| XXXI | Maria Botchkareva | [ 286] |
| HEROES OF FICTION | ||
| XXXII | William Tell | [ 297] |
| XXXIII | Don Quixote | [ 304] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| "Jeanne d'Arc drew the arrow from her breast with the courage of a veteran" | [ Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| "King Arthur grasped the magic sword that none but the bravest might hold" | [ 36] |
| "Robin Hood's band made merry by killing the King's deer" | [ 68] |
| "'I have not yet begun to fight,' shouted Paul Jones" | [ 188] |
| "The cannon balls fired by Molly Pitcher fell squarely in the British lines" | [ 196] |
| "Don Quixote suffered nobody to draw water from the well" | [ 276] |