| A FASCINATING STORY BY GENERAL LEW WALLACE. | [241] |
| A Boyhood of Wasted Opportunities | [242] |
| His Boyhood Love for History and Literature | [244] |
| A Father’s Fruitful Warning | [245] |
| A Manhood of Splendid Effort | [246] |
| “The Regularity of the Work was a Splendid Drill for me” | [247] |
| Self-Education by Reading and Literary Composition | [247] |
| “The Fair God” | [249] |
| The Origin of “Ben-Hur” | [250] |
| Influence of the Story of the Christ upon the Author | [251] |
CHAPTER XVI
| CARNEGIE AS A METAL WORKER | [253] |
| Early Work and Wages | [254] |
| Colonel Anderson’s Books | [255] |
| His First Glimpse of Paradise | [256] |
| Introduced to a Broom | [258] |
| An Expert Telegrapher | [259] |
| What Employers Think of Young Men | [261] |
| The Right Men in Demand | [262] |
| How to Attract Attention | [263] |
| Sleeping-Car Invention | [264] |
| The Work of a Millionaire | [266] |
| An Oil Farm | [267] |
| Iron Bridges | [268] |
| Homestead Steel Works | [269] |
| A Strengthening Policy | [270] |
| Philanthropy | [271] |
| “The Misfortune of Being Rich Men’s Sons” | [273] |
CHAPTER XVII
| JOHN B. HERRESHOFF, THE YACHT BUILDER | [276] |
| PART I. | |
| “Let the Work Show” | [278] |
| The Voyage of Life | [279] |
| A Mother’s Mighty Influence | [280] |
| Self Help | [281] |
| Education | [282] |
| Apprentices | [283] |
| Prepare to Your Utmost: then Do Your Best | [284] |
| Present Opportunities | [284] |
| Natural Executive Ability | [285] |
| The Development of Power | [286] |
| “My Mother” | [287] |
| A Boat-Builder in Youth | [288] |
| He Would Not be Discouraged | [288] |
| The Sum of it All | [289] |
| PART II. What the Herreshoff Brothers have been Doing. | |
| Racing Jay Gould | [291] |
| The “Stiletto” | [293] |
| The Blind Brother | [296] |
| Personality of John B. Herreshoff | [297] |
| Has he a Sixth Sense? | [299] |
| Seeing with His Fingers | [300] |
| Brother Nat | [301] |
CHAPTER XVIII
| A SUCCESSFUL NOVELIST: FAME AFTER FIFTY PRACTICAL HINTS TO YOUNG AUTHORS, BY AMELIA E. BARR. | [304] |
| Value of Biblical and Imaginative Literature | [305] |
| Renunciation | [306] |
| Delightful Studies | [307] |
| Fifteen Hours a Day | [308] |
| An Accident | [309] |
| Vocation | [310] |
| Words of Counsel | [310] |
CHAPTER XIX
| HOW THEODORE THOMAS BROUGHT THE PEOPLE NEARER TO MUSIC | [314] |
| “I was Not an Infant Prodigy” | [315] |
| Beginning of the Orchestra | [316] |
| Music had No Hold on the Masses | [320] |
| Working Out His Idea | [323] |
| The Chief Element of his Success | [326] |
CHAPTER XX