MASTERPIECES

History in Biography for Science Philosophy

Poetry x The Drama i Travel

Adventure x Fiction & Etc.

A Record of the Great Things that have been Said and Thought

and Done from the Beginning of History

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, HARRY THURSTON PEÇK, A.M., Ph.D., L.H.D.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS, FRANK R. STOCKTON, NATHAN HASKELL DOLE,
JULIAN HAWTHORNE, CAROLINE TICKNOR.
INTRODUCTI'N BY JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG, LIBRARIAN or CONGRESS.

Edition de Luxe. Volume XXV.

Published by AMERICAN
LITERARY SOCIETY New York