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Taft, William Howard. 1857- Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Roosevelt, the twenty-seventh President of the United States. Eminent for his knowledge of international affairs and his success as a diplomat.

Tyndall, John. 1820-1893. British physicist. Occupied the chair of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution, London; explored with Huxley the glaciers of Switzerland in 1856, thus beginning a study to which he gave much attention.

Van Dyke, Henry. 1852

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Clergyman, author, and educator. Professor of English Literature at Princeton University, 1900– 1913. Minister to Holland, 1913– His works include

sermons, essays, poems and stories. He has written of his fishing excursions in "Little Rivers."

Walker, H. Wilfred. Traveler and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Ward, Herbert.

African traveler, sculptor, and Knight of the Legion of Honor. Among his publications are "Five Years with the Congo Cannibals" and "My Life with Stanley's Rear Guard."

Washington, Booker T.

1859

Educator. Organizer and

head of Tuskegee Institute 1881. He has done more toward the practical education of negroes than any other educator.

Waterhouse, Alfred James.

1855

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Newspaper man and author. Now the associate editor of the San Francisco Star.

Watterson, Henry. 1840

Journalist and orator. Editor

of the Courier Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, and member of the forty-fourth congress.

White, Stewart Edward. 1873

Fiction writer. His ex

perience as member of the American Forestry Association is reflected in all that he has written. The forests and mountains take on new attractions as he portrays them.

Whittier, John Greenleaf. 1807-1892. The Quaker poet who as a boy received his first inspiration to write by hearing some of Burns' poems read aloud. He is revered for his simple living, the ennobling verses he wrote, and his devotion to the cause of freedom.

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residing at Princeton, who has written many good stories of his Alma Mater.

Wills, Freeman. English clergyman and dramatist. Vicar of St. Agatha, Finsbury, London, since 1871.

Wilson, Woodrow. 1856

Born Staunton, Va. President Princeton University 1902-1910, Governor of New Jersey 1911-1913, twenty-eighth president of the United States. Author of various political and historical works.

Zamacois, Miguel. Man of letters, dramatic author, and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. "The Jesters" was first played at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre, Paris, in 1907.

Zangwill, Israel. 1864

Hebrew poet and playwright.

Among his best known works are "Children of the Ghetto," and "Merely Mary Ann."

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF SELECTIONS

America the Crucible of God.
American Integrity..
Antelope, the Sioux Scout.
As Men Should.

At Abbotsford with Scott.
Breaking of Pommers, The.
Burial of Dundee..
Case of Fatty Simon, The.
Climbing to a Steeple-Top.
Consecration to Country.
Court Lady, A....

Death of the Dauphin, The.

Discovery of the North Pole, The.

Eagle's Song, The...

Electric Tram, The.
Escape from Prison.

Extract from Inaugural Address.
Falstaff's Valor..

Finish of Patsy Barnes, The..
Getting Started as a Lawyer.
Griggsby's Station.

Henry Hudson's Last Voyage.

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Israel Zangwill 200

. Charles Evans Hughes 331
.C. Alexander Eastman 274
.Leonard B. Kendall 329
Washington Irving 291
.A. Conan Doyle 159

William Edmondstoune Aytoun 262
Jesse Lynch Williams 211
.Cleveland Moffett 333

Abraham Lincoln 318

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 221
Alphonse Daudet 241
. Robert E. Peary 326
Richard Mansfield 185
..Alfred Noyes 193
.S. Weir Mitchell 171
Woodrow Wilson 336
William Shakespeare 186
.Paul Laurence Dunbar 164
. Paul Leicester Ford 310
James Whitcomb Riley 213
.Henry van Dyke 319

How Wendell Phillips Became an Anti-slavery Reformer

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Première of “She Stoops to Conquer," The....F. Frankfort Moore 302

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