FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME IX
| PAGE | |
| The Koran (Colored plate) | Frontispiece |
| [Geoffrey Chaucer (Portrait)] | 3552 |
| [Chaucer, Old Title-Page (Fac-simile)] | 3562 |
| [Lord Chesterfield (Portrait)] | 3626 |
| [Oldest Chinese Writing (Fac-simile)] | 3630 |
| [Cicero (Portrait)] | 3676 |
| ["Winter" (Photogravure)] | 3760 |
| [Henry Clay (Portrait)] | 3762 |
| [Samuel L. Clemens (Portrait)] | 3788 |
| ["The Gondola" (Photogravure)] | 3838 |
| [Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Portrait)] | 3844 |
VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
[Adelbert von Chamisso]
[William Ellery Channing]
[George Chapman]
[François René Auguste Châteaubriand]
[Thomas Chatterton]
[Andre Chénier]
[Victor Cherbuliez]
[Rufus Choate]
[Earl of Clarendon]
[Matthias Claudius]
[William Collins]
[William Wilkie Collins]
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO
(1781-1838)
ouis Charles Adelaide de Chamisso, known as Adelbert von Chamisso, the youngest son of Count Louis Marie de Chamisso, was born in the paternal castle of Boncourt, in Champagne, January 30th, 1781. Driven into exile by the Revolution, the family of loyalists sought refuge in the Low Countries and afterward in Germany, settling in Berlin in 1797. In later years the other members of the family returned to France and established themselves once more as Frenchmen in their native land; but Adelbert von Chamisso, German by nature and characteristics as well as by virtue of his early education and environment, struck root in Germany and was the genuine product of German soil. In 1796 the young Chamisso became page to Queen Louise of Prussia, and while at court, by the Queen's directions, he received the most careful education. He was made ensign in 1798 and lieutenant in 1801, in the Regiment von Goetze. A military career was repugnant to him, and his French antecedents did not tend to make his life agreeable among the German officers. That the service was not wholly without interest, however, is shown by the two treatises upon military subjects written by him in 1798 and 1799.