A frank spiritual autobiography. ($1.35 _net, by mail_ $1.45.)
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Edited by W. P. Trent, and generally confined to those no longer living. Large 12mo. With portraits. Each $1.75, by mail $1.90.
R. M. JOHNSTON'S LEADING AMERICAN SOLDIERS
Washington, Greene, Taylor, Scott, Andrew Jackson, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, McClellan, Meade, Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson, Joseph E. Johnston.
"Very interesting . . . much sound originality of treatment, and the style is very clear."--_Springfield Republican._
JOHN ERSKINE'S LEADING AMERICAN NOVELISTS
Charles Brockden Brown, Cooper, Simms, Hawthorne, Mrs. Stowe, and Bret Harte.
"He makes his study of these novelists all the more striking because of their contrasts of style and their varied purpose. . . . Well worth any amount of time we may care to spend upon them."--_Boston Transcript._
A General Introduction dealing with essay writing in America, and biographies of Irving, Emerson, Thoreau, and George William Curtis.
"It is necessary to know only the name of the author of this work to be assured of its literary excellence."--_Literary Digest._
Count Rumford and Josiah Willard Gibbs, by E. E. Slosson; Alexander Wilson and Audubon, by Witmer Stone; Silliman, by Daniel C. Gilman; Joseph Henry, by Simon Newcomb; Louis Agassiz and Spencer Fullerton Baird, by Charles F. Holder; Jeffries Wyman, by B. G. Wilder; Asa Gray, by John M. Coulter; James Dwight Dana, by William North Rice; Marsh, by Geo. Bird Grinnell; Edward Drinker Cope, by Marcus Benjamin; Simon Newcomb, by Marcus Benjamin; George Brown Goode, by D. S. Jordan; Henry Augustus Rowland, by Ira Remsen; William Keith Brooks, by E. A. Andrews.
By the author of "Inventors at Work," etc. Colonel John Stevens (screw-propeller, etc.); his son, Robert (T-rail, etc.); Fulton; Ericsson; Whitney; Blanchard (lathe); McCormick; Howe; Goodyear; Morse; Tilghman (paper from wood and sand blast); Sholes (typewriter); and Mergenthaler (linotype).
Other Volumes covering Lawyers, Poets, Statesmen, Editors, Explorers, etc., arranged for. Leaflet on application.
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The author grips and never lets go of the single theme (which presents itself more or less acutely to many people)--the duel between a passionate devotion to a career and the claims of love, pity, and domestic responsibility.