W, 237
JACKSON, STONEWALL, 303
JEFFERSON, THOMAS, 168
JOHNSON, ANDREW, 338
LAW, GEORGE, 101
LAWRENCE, ABBOTT, 271
LAWRENCE, AMOS, 21
LEE, ROBERT E., 306
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, 312
LOGAN, JOHN A., 357
LONGWORTH, NICHOLAS, 43
MACKAY, JOHN W., 52
MADISON, JAMES, 184
MARSHALL, JOHN, 175
MCCLELLAN, GEORGE B., 297
MILLS, DARIUS O., 103
MONROE, JAMES, 200
MORSE, PROFESSOR S. F. B., 462
PALMER, POTTER, 88
PEABODY, GEORGE, 116
PULLMAN, GEORGE, 473
RALSTON, WILLIAM G., 112
ROTHSCHILD, NATHAN MAYER, 122
SAGE, RUSSELL, 14
SEWARD, WILLIAM H., 204
SEYMOUR, HORATIO, 289
SINGER, ISAAC M., 451
STANTON, EDWIN M., 332
STEPHENS, ALEXANDER H., 272
STEPHENSON, GEORGE, 421
STEWART, ALEXANDER T., 39
TAYLOR, MOSES, 110
TILDEN, SAMUEL J., 396
VAN BUREN, MARTIN, 263
VANDERBILT, CORNELIUS, 16
VASSAR, MATHEW, 84
WANNAMAKER, JOHN, 37
WATT, JAMES, 415
WEBSTER, DANIEL, 218
WEED, THURLOW, 69
WILSON, HENRY, 310
WHITNEY, ELI, 435

WHY SOME SUCCEED WHILE OTHERS FAIL.

SUCCESS AND FAILURE, 481
CONCENTRATION OF EFFORT, 486
SELF-RELIANCE, 490
ECONOMY OF TIME, 495
CAUSES OF FAILURE, 499

QUOTATIONS.

_A man, to succeed, must possess the necessary equanimity of temperament
to conceive an idea, the capacity to form it into some tangible shape,
the ingenuity to put it into practical operation, the ability to
favorably impress others with its merits, and the_ POWER _of_ WILL _that
is absolutely necessary to force it to success._

--THOMAS A. SCOTT.

_Labor rids us of three evils.--Tediousness, Vice and Poverty._

--CARLYLE.

"_Never start upon an undertaking until you are sure it is practicable
and ought to be done, and then let nothing stand long in the way of
accomplishing that undertakin