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 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 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. 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. At Abbotsford with Scott. Death of the Dauphin, The. Discovery of the North Pole, The. Eagle's Song, The... Electric Tram, The. Extract from Inaugural Address. Finish of Patsy Barnes, The.. Henry Hudson's Last Voyage. PAGE Israel Zangwill 200 . Charles Evans Hughes 331 William Edmondstoune Aytoun 262 Abraham Lincoln 318 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 221 How Wendell Phillips Became an Anti-slavery Reformer |