THE WORLD’S LEADERS
A NEW SERIES OF BIOGRAPHIES
Edited by W. P. Trent
The notable interest in biography has generally been met by two widely different classes of publication—the biographical dictionaries, and volumes devoted each to an individual. There seems room for a series devoted to individuals in whose lives everybody is interested, and systematically arranged.
This new series is to be called “The World’s Leaders.” It will consist of large 12mo volumes, each containing from five to a dozen biographies, classified by volumes according to the pursuits of the men treated. It will include only those whose names are known to virtually all reading people, and will be written by the most capable authors who can be interested in the task. Pains will be taken to make the volumes interesting and inspiring, no less than reliable and instructive.
The books are designed not so much to recount history, as to portray the men who, in their respective departments, have made history. It is intended that the contents shall be biographies rather than treatises on the various fields of activity in which their subjects gained eminence, or than expositions, criticisms or philosophies; and yet it is realized that the best biography must contain something of each of the others.
It is not intended to put the books on a plane that will make much in them unattractive to any boy of fifteen who would care to read biography.
Each, with portraits. Large 12mo. $1.75 net.
H. W. Boynton’s The World’s Leading Poets.—Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Goethe.
G. B. Rose’s The World’s Leading Painters.—Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Rubens, Velasquez, Rembrandt.