Chapter I: Part II: Interpretations

III LITTERATEURS: AMERICAN WRITERS 63

Sherwood Anderson
William D. Howells
Lafcadio Hearn
Mark Twain
Henry Thoreau
Henry James

IV LITTERATEURS: FOREIGN WRITERS 98

Anatole France
Sainte-Beuve
Leonid Andreyev
Joseph Conrad
John Donne
Thomas Burke
Robert Louis Stevenson

V POETS 147

Alfred Kreymborg
William Blake
John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
Arthur Rimbaud

VI WARRIORS 179

Lord Wolseley
Robert E. Lee

VII EDITORS 188

Edward P. Mitchell
Edward W. Bok
Joseph Pulitzer
J. St. Loe Strachey

VIII CLERGYMEN 202

Dr. Frank Crane
W. J. Dawson

IX ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS 212

Walter Damrosch
Irving Berlin
Maria Jeritza
Emil Fuchs

X ACTORS AND ACTRESSES 225

Eleonora Duse
Charles Hawtrey
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Otis Skinner
George Cohan
The Unsuccessful Actor
Weber and Fields

XI STATESMEN 242

Woodrow Wilson
Brigham Young
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt

XII EDUCATORS 277

Sir William Osler
G. Stanley Hall

XIII PRIZE FIGHTERS 291

John L. Sullivan
James J. Corbett

XIV FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY 300

Ariel
The Divine Lady
The Nightingale

XV MISCELLANEOUS 308

A. Henry Savage Landor
Eric Horne

XVI THE LADIES 314

Madame Récamier
Rebekah Kohut
Kathleen Norris
Rheta Childe Dorr
Yang Kuei-Fei

BOOKS CITED 331

INDEX 337

PORTRAITS

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MARK TWAIN 74

ANATOLE FRANCE 98
Courtesy of Edward Wassermann

THOMAS BURKE 136

JOHN KEATS IN HIS LAST ILLNESS 158
By permission of “The Century Magazine”

JOSEPH PULITZER 196
Courtesy of “The New York World”

WALTER DAMROSCH 212
Photograph by Gutekunst

ELEONORA DUSE 226

BRIGHAM YOUNG 252
Courtesy of Harcourt, Brace & Co.

SIR WILLIAM OSLER 278
Reprinted from “The Annals of Medical History”

J. J. CORBETT 296
By permission of G. P. Putnam’s Sons

LADY HAMILTON AS CIRCE 302
Courtesy of Dodd, Mead & Co.

MME. RÉCAMIER 314