WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
; An Author at Fourteen
; The Influence of his Father
; Bryant’s Best Known Poems
; Personal Appearance
; A Long and Useful Life
; ‘Thanatopsis’
; ‘Waiting By the Gate
; ‘Blessed are They That Mourn’
; ‘Antiquity of Freedom’
; ‘To a Water Fowl’
; ‘Robert of Lincoln’
; ‘Drought’
; ‘The Past’
; ‘The Murdered Traveler’
; ‘The Battle-Field’
; ‘The Crowded Street’
; ‘Fitz Greene Halleck (Notice of)’
; ‘A Corn-Shucking in South Carolina’
EDGAR ALLEN POE.
; Comparison with Other American Poets
; Place of Birth and Ancestry
; Career as a Student
; The Sadness of his Life and Its Influence Upon his Literature
; Conflicting Statements of his Biographers
; Great as a Story Writer and as a Poet
; His Literary Labors and Productions
; ‘The City in the Sea’
; ‘Annabel Lee’
; ‘To Helen’
; ‘Israfel’
; ‘To One in Paradise’
; ‘Lenore’
; ‘The Bells’
; ‘The Raven’
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
; His Place in Literature
; Comparison With American and English Poets
; His Education, Collegemates and Home
; His Domestic Life. His Poems
; Prose Works and Translations
; The Wayside Inn (A view of)
; His Critics, Poe, Margaret Fuller, ;Duyckinck
; ‘Duyckink’ replaced with ‘Duyckinck’
; Longfellow’s Genius
; ‘The Psalm of Life’
; ‘The Village Blacksmith’
; ‘The Bridge’
; ‘Resignation’
; ‘God’s Acre’
; ‘Excelsior’
; ‘The Rainy Day’
; ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus’
; ‘The Old Clock On the Stairs’
; ‘The Skeleton in Armour’
; ‘King Witlaf’s Drinking Horn’
; ‘Evangeline On the Prairie’
; ‘Literary Fame (Prose)’
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
; The Difficulty of Classifying Emerson
; The Liberator of American Letters
; A Master of Language
; Emerson and Franklin
; Birth, Education, Early Life
; Home at Concord, Brook-Farm Enterprise
; Influence on Other Writers
; Modern Communism and the New Theology
; ‘Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument (1836)’
; ‘The Rhodora’
; ‘A True Hero’
; ‘Mountain and Squirrel’
; ‘The Snow-Storm’
; ‘The Problem’
; ‘Traveling’
; ‘The Compensation of Calamity’
; ‘Self Reliance’
; ‘Nature’
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
; Whittier’s Humble Birth, Ancestry, Education
; Poet of the Abolitionists
; His Poems and His Prose
; New England’s History Embalmed in Verse
; Our Most Distinctively American Poet
; ‘My Playmate’
; ‘The Changeling’
; ‘The ;Worship of Nature’
; ‘Workskip’ replaced with ‘Worship’
; ‘The Bare-foot Boy’
; ‘Maud Muller’
; ‘Memories’
; ‘In Prison For Debt’
; ‘The Storm’ (From ‘Snow Bound’)
; ‘Ichabod’
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
; Admired by the English-speaking World
; His Education and Popularity
; Early Poems
; Autocrat and Professor at the Breakfast Table
; Holmes’ Genial and Lovable Nature
; ‘Bill and Joe’
; ‘Union and Liberty’
; ‘Old Ironsides’
; ‘My Aunt’
; ‘The Height of the Ridiculous’
; ‘The Chambered Nautilus’
; ‘Old Age and the Professor’ (Prose)
; ‘The Brain’ (Prose)
; ‘My Last Walk with the School Mistress’
; ‘A Random Conversation on Old Maxims, Boston and other Towns’
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
; Profoundest of American Poets
; Early Life and Beginning in Literature
; Marriage, and the Influence of his Wife
; Home at Cambridge (view of)
; Humorous Poems and Prose Writings
; Longfellow’s Poem on Mrs. Lowell’s Death
; Public Career of the Author
; How Lowell is Regarded by Scholars
; ‘The Gothic Genius’ (From ‘The Cathedral’)
; ‘The Rose’
; ‘The Heritage’
; ‘Act For Truth’
; ‘The First Snow-Fall’
; ‘Fourth-of-July Ode’
; ‘The Dandelion’
; ‘The Alpine Sheep’ (by Mrs. Lowell)
BAYARD TAYLOR.
; Life as a Farmer Boy
; Education
; His First Book
; Encouragement from Horace Greeley
; A Two Years’ Tramp Through Europe
; A Most Delightful Book of Travel
; An Inveterate Nomad
; Public Career of the Author
; ‘The Bison Track’
; ‘The Song of the Camp’
; ‘Bedouin Song’
; ‘The Arab to the Palm’
; ‘Life on the Nile’
NATHANIEL P. WILLIS.
; A Devotee of Fashion
; Birth and Ancestors
; Educational Facilities
; His First Poems
; A Four Years’ Tour in Europe
; Marriage and Home
; A Second Journey to England
; Death
; An Untiring Worker
; ‘David’s Lament for Absalom’
; ‘The Dying Alchemist’
; ‘The Belfry Pigeon’
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD.
; His Humble Origin and Early Struggles
; Introduction into Literature
; Stoddard’s Style
; Literary Dinner in His Honor (1892)
; Ik Marvel’s Letter and Whitcomb Riley’s Poem
; ‘A Curtain Call’
; ‘Hymn to the Beautiful’
; ‘A Dirge’
; ‘The Shadow of the Hand’
; ‘A Serenade’
WALTER WHITMAN (WALT).
; The Estimates of Critics
; Charms of Whitman’s Poetry
; Life and Works of the Poet
; Biographies of the Poet
; ‘Darest Thou Now, O Soul’
; ‘O Captain! My Captain’
; ‘In All, Myself’
; ‘Old Ireland’
; ‘P;an of Joy’
JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON.
; Birth and Early Life
; A Thorough Southerner
; Man of Letters and Scientist
; Chief of the State Geological Survey
; Works of the Author
; ‘Ceres’
; ‘Diana’
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH.
; At the Head of Modern Lyrical Writers
; Birth and Early Life
; Mercantile Career
; War Correspondent
; Life in Boston
; Works
; Visit to England
; ‘Alec Yeaton’s Son’
; ‘On Lynn Terrace’
; ‘Sargent’s Portrait of Edwin Booth at “The Players.”’
RICHARD WATSON GILDER.
; Purity of Sentiment and Delicacy of Expression
; Education and Early Life
; Journalist
; Editor of “Hours at Home”
; Politician and Reformer
; A Staunch Friend of our Colleges
; A Man of Exalted Ideals
; ‘Sonnet (After the Italian)’
; ‘The Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln’
; ‘Sheridan’
; ‘Sunset From the Train’
; ‘O Silver River Flowing to the Sea’
; ‘There is Nothing New Under the Sun’
; ‘Memorial Day’
; ‘A Woman’s Thought’
JOHN HAY.
; His Western Birth and Education
; Service to President Lincoln
; Military Career
; Appointed Ambassador to Great Britain
; A List of His Books
; How He Came to Write “Little Breeches”
; ‘Little Breeches’
; ‘Jim Bludso’
; ‘How it Happened’
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
; Great Popularity with the Masses
; A Poet of the Country People
; Birth and Education
; First Occupation
; Congratulated by Longfellow
; Mr. Riley’s Methods of Work
; The Poet’s Home
; Constantly “on the Wing”
; ‘A Boy’s Mother’
; ‘Thoughts on the Late War’
; ‘Our Hired Girl’
; ‘The Raggedy Man’
BRET HARTE.
; The Poet of the Mining Camp
; Birth and Education
; Emigrated to California
; Schoolteacher and Miner
; Position on a Frontier Paper
; Editorial Position on the “Golden Era”
; Secretary of the U. S. Mint at San Francisco
; In Chicago and Boston
; U. S. Consul to Crefield and Glasgow
; A List of his Works
; ‘The Society Upon the Stanislaus’
; ‘Dickens in Camp’
EUGENE FIELD.
; The “Poet of Child Life”
; Troups of Children for his Friends
; Peace-maker Among the Small Ones
; A Feast with his Little Friends
; A Devoted Husband
; Congenial Association with his Fellow-workers
; Birth and Early Life
; His Works
; ‘Our Two Opinions’
; ‘Lullaby’
; ‘A Dutch Lullaby’
; ‘A Norse Lullaby’
WILL CARLETON.
; His Poems Favorites for Recitation
; Birth and Early Life
; Teacher, Farmhand and College Graduate
; Journalist and Lecturer
; A List of his Works
; ‘Betsy and I Are Out’
; ‘Gone With a Handsomer Man’
CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER (JOAQUIN).
; Removal from Indiana to Oregon
; Experiences in Mining and Filibustering
; Marries and Becomes Editor and Lawyer
; Visit to London to Seek a Publisher
; ‘Thoughts of My Western Home’
; ‘Mount Shasta’
; ‘Kit Carson’s Ride’
; ‘J. Miller’s Alaska Letter’
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER.
; First American Novelist
; Birth and Childhood
; The Wilderness his Teacher
; Sailor Life
; Marriage and Home
; “The Spy”
; Plaudits From Both Sides of the Atlantic
; The First Genuine Salt-water Novel
; Removal to New York
; A Six Years’ Visit to Europe
; His Remaining Nineteen Years
; ‘Encounter With a Panther’
; ‘The Capture of a Whale’
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
; The Greatest of American Romancers
; Birth, Ancestors, and Childhood
; Twelve Years of Solitary Existence
; His First Book
; “Twice Told Tales”
; A Staunch Democrat
; Marriage and the “Old Manse”
; The Masterpiece in American Fiction
; Books Written by Hawthorne
; Death and Funeral
; ‘Emerson and the Emersonites’
; ‘Pearl’
; ‘Sights From a Steeple’
; ‘A Reminiscence of Early Life’
EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
; Among the Best Known American Authors
; A Noted Lecturer
; Birth and Education
; Career as a Clergyman
; Newspaper and Magazine Work
; A Prominent Short-Story-teller
; An Historical Writer of Great Prominence
; Patriotic Interest in Public Affairs
; ‘Lost’
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.
; One of the Greatest of Modern American Novelists
; Birth and Early Life
; Editor of the “Ohio State Journal”
; His First Volume of Verse
; His “Life of Abraham Lincoln”
; Consul to Venice
; Mr. Howells’ Works
; Editor of the “Atlantic Monthly”
; ‘The First Boarder’
; ‘Impressions on Visiting Pompeii’
; ‘Venetian Vagabonds’
GENERAL LEW WALLACE.
; Began His Literary Career Late in Life
; Birth and Early Life
; Lawyer and Soldier
; Governor of Utah
; Appointed Minister to Turkey
; His Most Popular Book
; Enormous Circulation
; ‘Description of Christ’
; ‘The Prince of India Teaches Re-incarnation’
; ‘The Prayer of the Wandering Jew’
; ‘Death of Montezuma’
; ‘Description of Virgin Mary’
EDWARD EGGLESTON.
; Birth and Early Life
; A Man of Self-culture
; His Early Training
; Religious Devotion and Sacrifice
; Beginning of his Literary Career
; What Distinguishes his Novels
; List of his Chief Novels and Stories
; ‘Spelling down the Master’
THOMAS NELSON PAGE.
; Birth and Earliest Recollections
; Childhood, Ancestors, and Education
; His First Literary Success
; “In Ole Virginia” and other stories
; Prominent Journalist and Lecturer
; A Tour Abroad
; ‘Old Sue’
EDWARD PAYSON ROE.
; Great Popularity Among the Masses
; The Character of his Novels
; Birth and Education
; Served as Chaplain During the Civil War
; List of His Works
; ‘Christine, Awake For Your Life’
FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD.
; “The Most Versatile of Modern Novelists”
; Birth, Ancestors, and Early Life
; Editor on the “Allahabad Herald”
; Varied Experiences
; How he Came to Write “Mr. Isaacs”
; His Most Popular Novels
; A Novel Written in Twenty-four ;Days
; ‘Hours’ replaced with ‘Days’
; His Other Chief Works
; ‘Horace Bellingham’
; ‘In the Himalayas’
FRANCIS RICHARD STOCKTON.
; A Prolific and Popular Author
; Birth and Educational Training
; Engraver and Designer
; One New Book Almost Every Year
; Some of his Best Known Books
; ‘The End of a Career’
EDWARD BELLAMY.
; A Most Remarkable Sensation
; 100,000 Copies Per Year
; Mr. ;Bellamy’s Ideal
; ‘Belamy’s’ replaced with ‘Bellamy’s’
; Birth and Education
; His Books
; An Ideal Home
; ‘Music in the Year 2000’
GEORGE W. CABLE.
; “Circumstances Make the Man”
; Birth and Early Life
; Service in the Confederate Army
; Errand Boy in a Store
; On the “New Orleans Picayune”
; Devotes his Life to Literature
; His Most Prominent Works
; ‘The Doctor’
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
; Ancestors, Birth, and Girlhood
; Removal to Cincinnati
; A Trip Across the River
; Marriage
; Severe Trials
; A Memorable Year
; “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
; Her Pen Never Idle
; Removal to Hartford, Conn.
; Her Death
; ‘The Little Evangelist’
; ‘The Other World’
M. VIRGINIA TERHUNE (MARION HARLAND).
; Wide Variety of Talent
; Birth and Education
; Marriage and Home
; Her Most Prominent Works
; ‘A Manly Hero’
MARY ABIGAIL DODGE (GAIL HAMILTON).
; Essayist, Critic and Novelist
; Birth and Education
; Career as a Writer
; Her Published Volumes
; The Only Authorized Life of J. G. Blaine
; ‘Fishing’
HELEN HUNT JACKSON.
; Helen Hunt’s Cabin
; Birth and Education
; Marriage and Removal to Newport, R. I.
; Her First Poems
; Great Distinction as a Writer
; Removal to Colorado
; At the Foot of Pike’s Peak
; List of her Most Prominent Works
; Death and Burial Place
; ‘Christmas Night at St. Peter’s’
; ‘Choice of Colors’
FRANCES H. BURNETT.
; Pluck, Energy and Perseverance
; Her First Story
; Marriage and Tour in Europe
; Her Children Stories
; A Frequent Contributor to Periodicals
; ‘Pretty Polly P.’
MARY N. MURFREE (CHAS. EGBERT CRADDOCK).
; An Amusing Story
; Birth, Ancestry and Misfortunes
; A Student of Humanity
; Her Style Bold and Full of Humor
; ‘The Confession’
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD.
; Favorable Reception of “Gates Ajar!”
; An Early Writer
; A Long Series of Books
; Marriage and Home
; Her Purpose Always High
; ‘The Hands at Hayle and Kelso’s’
AMELIA E. BARR.
; Popularity of her Works
; Her Sorrows and Hardships
; Birth and Early Education
; Marriage and Travels
; Death of her Husband and Four Sons
; An Instantly Successful Book
; ‘Little Jan’s Triumph’
; ‘The Old Piano’
ALICE FRENCH (OCTAVE THANET).
; A Genuine Yankee Woman
; Her Puritan Ancestry
; Education and First Manuscript
; Her First Book
; Her Most Prominent Publications
; Her nom-de-plume
; Philosopher, Artist, and Novelist
; An Assiduous Student of her Subjects
; ‘Two Lost and Found’
JANE GOODWIN AUSTIN.
; A Famous Daughter of the “Pilgrims”
; Birth and Parents
; A List of her Best Books
; Her Personality
; ‘An Afternoon in Nantucket’
LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY.
; The Most Prolific of American Women Writers
; Critical Estimate of her Works
; Birth and Educational Advantages
; Her First Book
; Some of her Other Works
; A Tour of Europe
; Death
; ‘Columbus’
; ‘The Alpine Flowers’
; ‘Niagara’
; ‘Death of an Infant’
; ‘A Butterfly on a Child’s Grave’
ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH.
; Ancestors and Birth
; A Liberal Contributor to Periodicals
; Her Published Works
; ‘The Step-mother’
; ‘Guardian Angels’
; ‘The Brook’
; ‘The April Rain’
; ‘Flowers’
; ‘Eros and Anteros’
LUCY LARCOM.
; Operative in a Cotton Factory
; Birth and Early Life
; Her First Literary Production
; Some of her Best Works
; The Working Woman’s Friend
; ‘Hannah Binding Shoes’
ALICE AND PH;BE CARY.
; Their Birth and Early Lot
; Encouragement From Editors
; Their First Volume
; Some of their Prominent Works
; A Comparison Between the Two Sisters
; One in Spirit through Life
; United in Death
; ‘Pictures of Memory’
; ‘Nobility’
; ‘The Gray Swan’
; ‘To the Evening Zephyr’
; ‘Death Scene’
; ‘Memories’
; ‘Equal to Either Fortune’
; ‘Light’
LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON.
; Birth and Education
; Her First Book at Nineteen Years
; Her Following Publications
; Residence in Boston and Trips Abroad
; A Systematic Worker
; Personal Friendship
; ‘If There Were Dreams to Sell’
; ‘Wife to Husband’
; ‘The Last Good-Bye’
; ‘Next Year’
; ‘My Mother’s Picture’
WASHINGTON IRVING.
; The First Great Pioneer in American Letters
; Birth and Ancestors
; Named After George Washington
; Early Success as a Journalist
; A Two Years’ Trip in Europe
; A Shrewd Advertisement
; Seventeen Years Abroad
; The Winning Character of his Genius
; ‘The Organ of Westminster Abbey’
; ‘Baltus Van Tassel’s Farm’
; ‘Columbus at Barcelona’
; ‘The Galloping Hessian’
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.
; The Meditative School in American Literature
; Birth, Ancestry and Education
; Early Life
; In “The Brotherhood of Authors”
; His First Literary Work
; A Few of his Other Publications
; ‘The Moral Quality of Vegetables’
DONALD G. MITCHELL.
; Characteristics of the Author
; A Disciple of Washington Irving
; Birth, Education, and Early Life
; Home and Marriage
; U. S. Consul to Venice
; Semi-public Positions
; His Most Prominent Books
; ‘Washington Irving’
; ‘Glimpses of “Dream Life”’
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.
; A Noble Part in the Battles for Freedom
; Activity in the Anti-Slavery Agitation
; His Contributions to Literature
; A Popular Historian
; ‘A Puritan Sunday Morning’
HAMILTON W. MABIE.
; Birth, Family, and Education
; Familiar with the Classics
; On the Staff of the “Christian Union”
; Profound Study of the Problems of Life
; A Declaration Typical of all his Thought
; ‘Country Sights and Sounds’
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.
; Two Sensational Poems
; Birth, Ancestry, and Early Life
; Journalist at Twenty-one
; On the New York “Tribune”
; Editor of the “World”
; A Remarkable War Letter
; A List of his Prominent Works
; Poet and Man of Business
; An Ideal Home Life
; ‘Betrothed Anew’
; ‘The Door-Step’
GEORGE H. BANCROFT.
; The First Among American Historians
; Birth and Education
; Extensive Studies in Europe
; Appointed to the Chair of Greek in Harvard College
; A School of High Classical Character
; Official Service
; Removal to New York
; Minister to Russia and to Germany
; His “History of the United States” and other Works
; A Long and Useful Life
; ‘Character of Roger Williams’
; ‘Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbor’
; ‘Chivalry and Puritanism’
; ‘The Position of the Puritans’
JAMES PARTON.
; Ancestry, Birth, and Education
; A Very Successful Teacher
; His Career as a Literary Man
; On the Staff of “The New York Ledger”
; His Most Prominent Works
; ‘Old Virginia’
FRANCIS PARKMAN.
; Birth, Education, and Visit Abroad
; A Summer With the ;Dacotah Indians
; ‘Dakotah’ replaced with ‘Dacotah’
; Compelled to Suspend Intellectual Work
; An Interesting Example of his Persistency
; His Interest in Horticulture
; ‘The New England Colonies’
; ‘The Heights of Abraham’
WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT.
; A Popular Historian
; Birth, Parentage and Early Life
; A Thorough Preparation
; Marriage and Happy Home
; His Method of Composition
; Successful as a Writer from the First
; A List of his Works
; Many Engaging Qualities
; ‘The Golden Age of Tezcuco’
; ‘The Banquet of the Dead’
JOHN L. MOTLEY.
; Birth, Boyhood, and Early Associates
; Intimate Friend of Prince Bismarck
; Member of Massachusetts’ Legislature
; “History of Holland”
; Minister to Austria, 1861; to England, 1869
; Patriot, Scholar, Historian
; ‘Bismarck’
; ‘The Siege of Leyden’
; ‘Assassination of William of Orange’
JOHN FISKE.
; Precocious Ability
; Birth, Education and Early Life
; His Literary Work and Most Noted Books
; His Principal Historical Works
; His School-books
; ‘Land Discovered’
; ‘The Federal Convention’
JOHN B. McMASTER.
; Excelling in Different Fields
; Parentage, Birth and Early Life
; Professor of American History
; His View of History
; Instructor of the Young
; ‘The American Workman in 1784’
; ‘The Minister in New England’
FRANCES M. WHITCHER (THE WIDOW BEDOTT).
; Her nom-de-plume
; Richness of Humor
; Birth, Childhood and Education
; Marriage and Literary Fame
; Removal from Elmira, N. Y.
; ‘Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles’
; ‘The Widow’s Poetry and her Comments on the Same About Hezekiah’
CHARLES F. BROWN (ARTEMUS WARD).
; Birth and Education
; On the “Commercial,” Toledo, Ohio
; Local Editor of the “Plain Dealer”
; Successful Lecturer in England
; Death at Southampton
; His Works
; ‘Artemus Ward Visits the Shakers’
; ‘At the Tomb of Shakespeare’
HENRY W. SHAW (JOSH BILLINGS).
; Birth and Education
; His Early Life of Adventure
; Entered the Lecture Field
; Contributor to “The New York Weekly”
; His Published Books
;; ‘Josh Billing’s Advertisement’
; added work omitted from the TOC
; ‘Manifest Destiny’
; ‘Letters to Farmers’
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN).
; A World-wide Reputation
; Birth, Boyhood and Education
; His Pilot Life
; Editor of the Virginia City “Enterprise”
; Journalist and Gold Digger
; A Trip to Hawaii
; Innocents Abroad
; Some of his Other Works
; A Lecturing Trip Around the World
; ‘Jim Smiley’s Frog’
; ‘Uncle Dan’l’s Apparition and Prayer’
; ‘The Babies’
MARIETTA HOLLEY (JOSIAH ALLEN’S WIFE).
; A Writer at an Early Age
; Birth and Ancestors
; Rise and Increase of Her Fame
; Some of her Prominent Works
; A Quarter Million Copies Sold
; Characteristics of her Books
; ‘Josiah Allen’s Wife Calls on the President’
CHARLES F. ADAMS (YAWCOB STRAUSS).
; A Not-Soon-to-be-Forgotten Author
; Birth, Education and Early Life
; Service in Many Hard-fought Battles
; Prominent Business Man
; A Contributor to Prominent Journals
; A Genial and Companionable Man
; ‘Der Drummer’
; ‘Hans and Fritz’
; ‘Yawcob Strauss’
; ‘Mine Moder-in-Law’
; ‘Yawcob’s Dribulations’
; ‘The Puzzled Dutchman’
; ‘Der Oak and Der Vine’
EDGAR WILSON NYE (BILL NYE).
; A Man of Genuine Wit
; Birth and Early Surroundings
; Studied Law, Admitted to the Bar
; Organized the Nye Trust
; Famous Letters from Buck’s Shoals, N. C.
; “History of the United States”
; His Death
; ‘The Wild Cow’
; ‘Mr. Whisk’s True Love’
; ‘The Discovery of New York’
JOEL C. HARRIS (UNCLE REMUS).
; “An Accidental Author”
; Birth and Humble Circumstances
; In the Office of the “Countryman”
; Beginning of his Literary Career
; Studied and Practiced Law
; Co-editor of the Atlanta “Constitution”
; His Works
; ‘Mr. Rabbit, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Buzzard’
ROBERT J. BURDETTE.
; A Prominent Place Among “Funny Men”
; Birth and Early Education
; Fought in the Civil War
; Journalist, Lecturer and Baptist Minister
; Contributor to “Ladies’ Home Journal”
; His Other Works
; ‘The Movement Cure for Rheumatism’
LOUISA M. ALCOTT.
; Architect of her Own Fortune
; Her Father’s Misfortunes
; Her Early Writings
; Her Letters in the Government Hospitals
; Young People’s True Friend
; Her Books
; An Admirer of Emerson
; A Victim of Over-Work
; ‘How Jo Made Friends’
WILLIAM T. ADAMS (OLIVER OPTIC).
; Writer for the Young
; Birth and Early Life
; Teacher in Public Schools of Boston
; His Editorials and Books
; His Style and Influence
; ‘The Sloop That Went to the Bottom’
SARAH JANE LIPPINCOTT (GRACE GREENWOOD).
; Favorite Writer for Little Children
; Birth and Childhood
; Her Marriage
; Contributions to Journals and Magazines
; Her Numerous Books
; Life Abroad
; ‘The Baby in the Bath Tub’
HORATIO ALGER.
; A Wholesome Author for Young People
; His First Book, Great Success
; A New Field
; Birth, Education and Early Life
; Residence in New York
; Some of his Most Prominent Books
; ‘How Dick Began the Day’
EDWARD ELLIS.
; Birth and Early Life
; His Historical Text-Books
; His Contributions to Children’s Papers
; ‘The Signal Fire’
MARTHA FINLEY.
; Birth, Ancestry and Early Life
; Beginning of her Literary Career
; Struggle Against Adversity
; Great Exertions
; ‘Elsie Series,’ Great Popularity
; ‘Elsie’s Disappointment’
MARY MAPES DODGE.
; Writer of Stories for Children
; Birth and Parentage
; Married William Dodge
; Contributor to “Hearth and Home”
; Success of her Works
; Editor of “St. Nicholas Magazine”
; Her Home in New York
; ‘Too Much of a Good Thing’
HORACE GREELEY.
; Birth and Early Taste for Literature
; On the “Northern Spectator”
; Tries his Fortune in New York
; Part Owner of the “New Yorker”
; The “Log Cabin” and the N. Y. “Tribune”
; Elected to Congress
; His Works
; Nominated for Presidency
; His Last Resting Place
; ‘A Debtor’s Slavery’
; ‘The Press’
CHARLES A. DANA.
; One of Our Foremost Men
; Birth and Early Life
; A Remarkable Life
; His Education and College Career
; Joining the “Brook Farm” Men
; His First Journalistic Experience
; On the New York “Tribune”
; Busy Years
; Difference Between Mr. Greeley and Mr. Dana
; Assistant Secretary of War
; One Year in Chicago
; Manager of the New York “Sun”
; ‘Roscoe Conkling’
LYMAN ABBOTT.
; Ancestors, Birth and Education
; Ordained a Minister
; Secretary to the American Freedmen’s Commission
; Work as a Journalist
; Successor of Henry Ward Beecher
; Prolific Publisher
; Successful Pulpit Speaker
; ‘The Jesuits’
; ‘The Destruction of the Cities of the Plain’
HENRY W. WATTERSON.
; Influential Modern Journalist
; Birth and Education
; Editor of the “Republican Banner”
; Service in the Confederate Army
; The “Courier-Journal,” Louisville, Ky.
; Prominent Part in Politics
; ‘The New South’
MURAT HALSTEAD.
; One of the Greatest Living Journalists
; Nativity, Early Life and Education
; Editor of “The Commercial,” Cincinnati, Ohio
; A Continued Success
; Correspondent During the Franco-Prussian War, 1870
; In Washington and New York
; Home and Family Life
; ‘The Young Man at the Door’
WHITELAW REID.
; “Fortune Favors the Brave”
; Birth and Early Training
; War Correspondent to the “Cincinnati Gazette”
; An Important Work
; Editorial Writer Upon N. Y. “Tribune”
; His Most Prominent Works
; His Palatial Home and Family Life
; ‘Pictures of a Louisiana Plantation’
ALBERT SHAW.
; Birth, Education and Personal Characteristics
; Residence in Baltimore
; On the Minneapolis Daily “Tribune”
; Extensive Studies Abroad
; Editor of the “Review of Reviews”
; Great Success
; ‘Recent Development of the West’
JULIAN HAWTHORNE.
; His Imaginative Power, Vivid Statement
; Parentage, Birth and Travels Abroad
; College Life and Early Training
; Long Sojourn Abroad
; Some of his Most Prominent Works
; Expedition to India
; ‘The Wayside and the War’
; ‘First Months in England’
; ‘The Horrors of the Plague in India’
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS.
; Marvelous Skill in Seeing the World
; A Clever Newspaper Reporter
; Birth and Hereditary Bent for Letters
; Interesting Career as a Journalist
; The Book that Made Him Famous
; Some of His Other Works
; ‘The Greek Defence of Velestino’
PATRICK HENRY.
; His Talents as a Popular Orator
; Parentage and Education
; Marriage and Early Life
; A Prominent Lawyer
; Bold Principles
; The Leader of his Colony
; The First Governor of Virginia
; His Death
; ‘Resistance to British Aggression’
; ‘The War Inevitable’
HENRY CLAY.
; The “Great Pacificator”
; Birth, Early Hardships, Toil and Poverty
; Removal to Kentucky and Success
; Marriage and Home
; In the Senate of the United States
; Member of the House of Representatives
; Elected Speaker
; Secretary of State
; The Conflict of 1818
; The Disappointment of His Life
; The “Compromise” of 1850
; The Leading Object of His Life
; ‘Defence of Jefferson,’ 1813
; ‘Reply to John Randolph’
; ‘On Recognizing the Independence of Greece’
DANIEL WEBSTER.
; First among the “Makers of the Nation”
; Birth, Ancestors and Early Life
; The “Webster’s Boy”
; Extraordinary Memory
; Majestic Appearance
; Lawyer, Orator and Statesman
; A Famous Case
; His Most Famous Speeches
; Secretary of State
; Home and Home Life
; Death and Funeral
; ‘South Carolina and Massachusetts’
; ‘Liberty and Union’
; ‘The Eloquence of Action’
; ‘The Twenty-second of February’
; ‘America’s Gift to Europe’
EDWARD EVERETT.
; The Great Charm of His Orations
; Birth, Education and Early Life
; Professor of Greek at Harvard College
; Editor of the “North American Review”
; Member of Congress
; Minister to England
; President of Harvard College
; Secretary of State
; His Lectures and Orations
; Death
; ‘Twenty-five Years of Peace’
; ‘The Father of the Republic’
; ‘The Land of Our Forefathers’
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
; “The Silvery-tongued Orator”
; How He came into Prominence
; A Memorable Speech
; Birth, Parents and Education
; A Popular Lecturer
; His Most Celebrated Addresses
; ‘Political Agitation’
; ‘Toussaint L’Ouverture’
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
; No Superior as Pulpit Orator
; Parentage, Birth and Childhood
; Education and Conversion
; His Marriage and First Pastorate
; Pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
; A Bold Abolitionist
; Ever the Champion of the Right
; His Death and Funeral
; ‘Public Dishonesty’
; ‘Eulogy on General Grant’
; ‘From “The Sparks of Nature”’
JOHN B. GOUGH.
; A Great National Orator
; Birth and Early Life
; A Life of Hopeless Dissipation
; Public Confession and Reformation
; A Popular Lecturer
; Called to England
; A Happy Life
; His Published Works
; ‘Water and Rum’
; ‘The Power of Habit’
; ‘What is a Minority?’
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW.
; Great Versatility
; Birth, Ancestors and Boyhood
; A Close Student of Politics
; A Highly Successful Lawyer
; A Giant in Politics
; Member of Congress
; Secretary of State
; Minister to Japan
; His Career as a Railway Man
; ‘The Pilgrims’
HENRY W. GRADY.
; Devoid of Sectional Animosities
; The Union His Pride
; Eloquent, Logical and Aggressive
; His Principal Speeches
; Birth, Parentage and Education
; Marriage and Struggle for Existence
; “A Friend in Need”
; Success at Last
; Premature Death
; ‘The New South’
; ‘Regard for the Negro Race’
; ‘Appeal for Temperance’
JULIA WARD HOWE.
; Her Home a Meeting Place for Great Men
; Birth, Parentage and Education
; Marriage and Tour Abroad
; Her First Book
; Interest in the Anti-Slavery Question
; Her Famous “Battle Hymn”
; Visit to England
; A New Journey Abroad
; ‘The Battle Hymn of the ;Republic’
; ‘Rebublic’ replaced with ‘Republic’
; ‘Our Country’
; ‘The Unspeakable Pang’
MARY A. LIVERMORE.
; Her Early Experience
; Birth, Parentage and Education
; Teacher of Latin and French
; In the South
; Marriage
; An Active Temperance Worker
; Her Literary Work
; War Service
; An Ardent Woman-Suffragist
; Her Pen Never Idle
; ‘Useful Women’
BELVA ANN LOCKWOOD.
; One of the Greatest Benefactors of Her Sex
; Birth, Education and Early Life
; Professor at Lockport Academy
; Admission to the Supreme Court of the U. S.
; A Remarkable Nomination
; Great Popularity
; Several Times Delegate to International Congresses of Peace
; Assistant Editor to the “Peacemaker”
; ‘Address before the Committee of the House of Delegates,
Washington, in Support of Woman Suffrage’
SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
; Early Life and Education
; How She Became an Abolitionist, Woman-Suffragist and Temperance
Worker
; Arrested, Tried and Fined for Voting
; Speeches and Lectures
; Celebration of Her Seventieth Birthday
; ‘Woman’s Right to Suffrage’
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
; Forceful, Logical and Eloquent Orator
; Primarily a Woman-Suffragist
; Birth, Childhood and Education
; How She Became a Woman’s Rights Believer
; How She Became an Abolitionist
; The First Woman’s Rights Convention
; Her Addresses and Speeches
; Her Literary Works
; A Thoroughly Domestic Woman
; ‘A Plea for Equal Rights’
; ‘Address to the Legislature of New York’
FRANCES E. WILLARD.
; Birth, Childhood and Early Life
; Teacher and President of Evanston College
; The Women’s “Crusade against Rum Shops”
; Joining in the Crusade
; The Result of Her Work
; ‘Home Protection’
LYDIA MARIA CHILD.
; Activity against the “Fugitive Slave Law”
; Birth, Education and Early Life
; Her First Book a Success
; Marriage and Anti-Slavery Work
; The First Anti-Slavery Book in America
; ‘A Little Waif’
; ‘To Whittier on His Seventieth Birthday’
; ‘Politeness’
; ‘Flowers’
; ‘Unselfishness’
ANNA ELIZABETH DICKINSON.
; A Fearless Girl
; Birth, Childhood and Education
; Her Debut Before the Public
; Cast Upon the World
; How She was Named “The Girl Orator”
; The Mistake of Her Life
; Misfortunes and Difficulties
; Rare Eloquence and Dramatic Fervor
; ‘Why Colored Men Should Enlist in the Army’
MISCELLANEOUS MASTERPIECES.
; ‘Home, Sweet Home’
; ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’
; ‘The American Flag’
; ‘Blind Man and the Elephant’
; ‘Hail, Columbia!’
; ‘Betty and the Bear’
; ‘Visit of St. Nicholas’
; ‘Woodman, Spare that Tree’
; ‘Sanctity of Treaties, 1796’
; ‘The Bloom was on the Alder and the Tassel on the Corn’
; ‘The Declaration of Independence’
; ‘Washington’s Address to His Soldiers, 1776’
; ‘The General Government and the States’
; ‘What Saved the Union’
; ‘The Birthday of Washington’
; ‘Oh! Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?’
; ‘Columbus in Chains’
; ‘The Bivouac of the Dead’
; ‘Address at the Dedication of Gettysburg Cemetery’
; ‘Memory’
; ‘All Quiet Along the Potomac’
; ‘A Life on the Ocean Wave’
; ‘The Blue and the Gray’
; ‘Roll-call’
; ‘Theology in the Quarters’
; ‘Ruin Wrought by Rum’
; ‘To a Skeleton’
; ‘Pledge with Wine’
; ‘Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua’
; ‘The Crabbed Man’
; ‘Putting up O’ the Stove’
; ‘The Poor Indian!’
; ‘Jenkins Goes to a Picnic’
; ‘Sewing on a Button’
; ‘Casey at the Bat’
; ‘The Magical Isle’
; ‘Stray Bits of Character’
FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS.
WHOSE WRITINGS, BIOGRAPHIES AND PORTRAITS APPEAR IN THIS VOLUME.
Abbott, Lyman.
Adams, Charles Follen, (_Yawcob Strauss_).
Adams, Wm. T., (_Oliver Optic_).
Alcott, Louisa May.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Anthony, Susan B.
Artemus Ward, (_Charles F. Browne_).
Austin, Jane Goodwin.
Bancroft, George H.
Barr, Amelia E.
Beecher, Henry Ward.
Bellamy, Edward.
Bill Nye (_Edgar Wilson Nye_).
Browne, Charles F., (_Artemus Ward_).;
Bryant, William Cullen.
;Burdette, Robert J.
; ‘Burdett’ replaced with ‘Burdette’
Burnett, Frances Hodgson.
Cable, George W.
Carleton, Will.
Cary, Alice.
Cary, Phoebe.
Child, Lydia Maria.;
Clay, Henry.
Clemens, Samuel L., (_Mark Twain_).