THE LIBRARY

OF

Historic Characters

AND

Famous Events

OF ALL NATIONS AND

ALL AGES

A. R. SPOFFORD, Librarian of Congress, Emeritus
FRANK WEITENKAMPF, Astor Library, New York
and PROFESSOR J. P. LAMBERTON

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

ILLUSTRATED with Photograv-
ures from Paintings by Great Artists
and from Authentic Portraits

Volume VIII

BOSTON

J. B. MILLET CO.

1906

907
5762

590144

COPYRIGHT, 1900

BY J. B. MILLET

IRKYBA

The Greatness of Lincoln. Lincoln's Speech at the Cooper Institute.

Appeal to the People to Avert War. Dedication of Gettysburg

National Cemetery. Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. The

Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln's Character. O Captain,

My Captain.

W. H. SEWARD:.

The Admission of California. Seward's Diplomacy

GENERAL U. S. GRANT: .

What Lincoln did for Grant. The Capture of Vicksburg. The

Battle of the Wilderness. General Grant and the Army of the

Tennessee. Grant's Life-Work

GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN :

The Atlanta Campaign. Lincoln and Sherman

GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN :

The Battle of Five Forks. Sheridan's Ride

GENERAL R. E. LEE:

General Lee's Report of the Gettysburg Campaign. General Lee

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132-137

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184-188

GENERAL A. S. JOHNSTON: A. S. Johnston's Last Campaign

GENERAL BEAUREGARD: The Capture of Fort Sumter

ADMIRAL FARRAGUT:

The River Fight. The Fight in Mobile Bay

QUEEN ELIZABETH: The Church of England under Elizabeth.

The People's Sovereign. England's Virgin Queen

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: Sidney in the Netherlands.

MOHAMMED: The Hegira or Flight of the Prophet.

MOHAMMED II.: The Conquest of Constantinople

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Edmund SpenSER: The Epithalamion

253-256

Una and the Red-Cross Knight. Adventure of Una with the Lion .

258-260

The English Defender of American Rights. Death of Lord Chatham

TIBERIUS: The Rise and Fall of Sejanus

346

Raphael and Michael Angelo. Raphael's Madonna di San Sisto

MOZART: Mozart's Requiem .