CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | [1] |
| Horatio Nelson | [87] |
| John Bunyan | [123] |
| Thomas Arnold | [149] |
| Wendell Phillips | [175] |
| Henry Ward Beecher | [217] |
| Charles Kingsley | [261] |
| General William Tecumseh Sherman | [288] |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon | [333] |
| Phillips Brooks | [368] |
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
"The series of Napoleon's successes is absolutely the most marvellous in history. No one can question that he leaves far behind the Turennes, Marlboroughs, and Fredericks; but when we bring him up for comparison an Alexander, a Hannibal, a Cæsar, a Charles, we find in the single point of marvellousness Napoleon surpassing them all....
"Every one of those heroes was born to a position of exceptional advantage. Two of them inherited thrones; Hannibal inherited a position royal in all but the name; Cæsar inherited an eminent position in a great empire. But Napoleon, who rose as high as any of them, began life as an obscure provincial, almost as a man without a country. It is this marvellousness which paralyzes our judgment. We seem to see at once a genius beyond all estimate, a unique character, and a fortune utterly unaccountable."