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Title: Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8
A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more
than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Author: Various

Editor: Charles F. Horne

Release Date: August 27, 2008 [EBook #26424]

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GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN

_A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of_

THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN HISTORY

VOL. IV.

Copyright, 1894, BY SELMAR HESS

edited by Charles F. Horne

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New-York: Selmar Hess Publisher

Copyright, 1894, by SELMAR HESS.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

SUBJECT AUTHOR PAGE

JOHN ADAMS, _Edwin Williams_, 251
Letter from Adams to a friend
on the "Destiny of America," 252
LOUIS AGASSIZ, _Asa Gray_, 350
PRINCE VON BISMARCK, _Prince Outisky_, 385
SIMON BOLIVAR, _Hon. John P. St. John_, 306
EDMUND BURKE, _Dr. Heinrich Geffcken_, 226
JEAN FRANCOIS CHAMPOLLION, _Georg Ebers_, 311
GROVER CLEVELAND, _Clarence Cook_, 403
GEORGES CUVIER, _John Stoughton, D.D._, 287
CHARLES DARWIN, _Arch. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S._, 355
BENJAMIN DISRAELI,