CONTENTS.

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George Washington[1]
Benjamin Franklin[38]
Thomas Jefferson[67]
Alexander Hamilton[99]
Andrew Jackson[133]
Daniel Webster[177]
Henry Clay[230]
Charles Sumner[268]
Ulysses S. Grant[307]
James A. Garfield[361]

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

The "purest figure in history," wrote William E. Gladstone of George Washington.

When Frederick the Great sent his portrait to Washington, he sent with it these remarkable words: "From the oldest general in Europe to the greatest general in the world."