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Contents
| PAGE | |
| Author's Foreword | [ 9 ] |
| Publisher's Preface | [ 14 ] |
| Robert Burns | [ 18 ] |
| William Waldorf Astor | [ 33 ] |
| Henry VIII | [ 42 ] |
| Alton B. Parker | [ 48 ] |
| Euclid | [ 54 ] |
| J. M. Barrie | [ 65 ] |
| Omar Khayyam | [ 72 ] |
| Andrew Carnegie | [ 78 ] |
| King Cophetua | [ 85 ] |
| Joseph F. Smith | [ 90 ] |
| Sherlock Holmes | [ 98 ] |
| Aftword | [ 109 ] |
List of Illustrations
| Andrew Carnegie | [FRONTISPIECE] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Robert Burns | [ 18 ] |
| William Waldorf Astor | [ 34 ] |
| Henry VIII | [ 42 ] |
| Alton B. Parker | [ 48 ] |
| Euclid | [ 54 ] |
| J. M. Barrie | [ 66 ] |
| Omar Khayyam | [ 72 ] |
| King Cophetua | [ 86 ] |
| Joseph F. Smith | [ 90 ] |
| Sherlock Holmes | [ 98 ] |
Authors Foreword
(To the Publisher)
HEN honest men are all in bed,
We poets at our desks are toiling,
To earn a modicum of bread,
And keep the pot a-boiling;