ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author expresses his thanks to the editors of The Bookman, McNaught’s Monthly, The International Book Review, and The New York Sun for permission to elaborate material used by them into certain chapters of this volume.
CONTENTS
| Part I: BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY | ||
| Page | ||
| 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 | ||
| IV | Litterateurs: Foreign Writers | [98] |
| Anatole France Sainte-Beuve Leonid Andreyev Joseph Conrad John Donne Thomas Burke Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| V | Poets | [147] |
| Alfred Kreymborg William Blake John Keats Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Rimbaud | ||
| VI | Warriors | [179] |
| Lord Wolseley Robert E. Lee | ||
| VII | Editors | [188] |
| Edward P. Mitchell Edward W. Bok Joseph Pulitzer J. St. Loe Strachey | ||
| VIII | Clergymen | [202] |
| Dr. Frank Crane W. J. Dawson | ||
| IX | Artists and Musicians | [212] |
| Walter Damrosch Irving Berlin Maria Jeritza Emil Fuchs | ||
| X | Actors and Actresses | [225] |
| Eleonora Duse Charles Hawtrey Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson Otis Skinner George Cohan The Unsuccessful Actor Weber and Fields | ||
| XI | Statesmen | [242] |
| Woodrow Wilson Brigham Young Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt | ||
| XII | Educators | [277] |
| Sir William Osler G. Stanley Hall | ||
| XIII | Prize Fighters | [291] |
| John L. Sullivan James J. Corbett | ||
| XIV | Fictional Biography | [300] |
| Ariel The Divine Lady The Nightingale | ||
| XV | Miscellaneous | [308] |
| A. Henry Savage Landor Eric Horne | ||
| XVI | The Ladies | [314] |
| Madame Récamier Rebekah Kohut Kathleen Norris Rheta Childe Dorr Yang Kuei-Fei | ||
| Books Cited | [331] | |
| Index | [337] |
PORTRAITS
| FACING PAGE | |
| Mark Twain | [74] |
| Anatole France Courtesy of Edward Wassermann | [98] |
| Thomas Burke | [136] |
| John Keats in his Last Illness By permission of “The Century Magazine” | [158] |
| Joseph Pulitzer Courtesy of “The New York World” | [196] |
| Walter Damrosch Photograph by Gutekunst | [212] |
| Eleonora Duse | [226] |
| Brigham Young Courtesy of Harcourt, Brace & Co. | [252] |
| Sir William Osler Reprinted from “The Annals of Medical History” | [278] |
| J. J. Corbett By permission of G. P. Putnam’s Sons | [296] |
| Lady Hamilton as Circe Courtesy of Dodd, Mead & Co. | [302] |
| Mme. Récamier | [314] |
Part I: BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
But all the world’s coarse thumb
And finger failed to plumb,
So passed in making up the main account:
All instincts immature,
All purposes unsure,
That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man’s amount:
Thoughts hardly to be packed
Into a narrow act,
Fancies that broke through language and escaped:
All I could never be,
All men ignored in me,
This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Rabbi Ben Ezra.
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