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will be observed, moreover, that our discussion is confined to the statures 

 of men. Those of women are notoriously lower, and the two can not 

 well be treated together in an article of short compass. 



Towering above all the historic characters thus gathered before the 

 mind's eye is the immense form of Charles Sumner with his 6 feet 

 4 inches. Beside him, only an inch and a half less in height, stands 

 Thomas Jefferson, while near these two are Charles Godfrey Leland 

 and Andrew Jackson with statures of 6 feet 2^ and 6 feet 1 inch. 



Described as " over six feet " are Samuel Adams, Bismarck, Samuel 

 P. Chase, Captain Cook, Jonathan Edwards, Eugene Field, Henry 

 Fielding and Walt Whitman, while Charles Darwin (" about six feet "), 

 Alexander Dumas, the elder, James Monroe ("six feet or more"),. 

 Bayard Taylor ("six feet at seventeen"), Alfred Tennyson, General 

 Thomas and George Washington must be ranged with celebrated men 

 six feet in height. 



Another group — still of majestic presence — is referred to as 

 " slightly under " or " a little below " six feet, and in this we find the 

 names of Henry Ward Beecher, Eufus Choate, Sidney Lanier and 

 Daniel O'Connell. The remainder are of less impressive height — 

 Benjamin Franklin, Albert Gallatin, John Buskin, Robert Louis Steven- 

 son and Daniel Webster, who could claim five feet ten inches, General 

 Charles George Gordon, whose stature was five feet nine inches, and 

 Washington Irving, who was 5 feet 8£ to 9 inches. 



In addition to these individuals there is a goodly company spoken 

 of by the biographers as " tall " — Matthew Arnold, Louis Agassiz, 

 William Cullen Bryant, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Charles XII. of 

 Sweden, Christopher Columbus, Stonewall Jackson, General Sam 

 Houston, Leigh Hunt, Edward Fitzgerald, Ben Johnson, Chief Justice 

 Marshall, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Southey ("very tall"), Phillips 

 Brooks ("of great height"), Wm. M. Thackeray ("above medium 

 height"), Patrick Henry, Lorenzo de Medici, Francis Parkman, Cov- 

 entry Patmore, Peter the Great, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sidney Smith 

 ("of middle height, rather above than below"), Thaddeus Stevens,. 

 N. P. Willis, Richard Strauss and John Bunyan. 



Described as of " medium height " are Robert Browning, John 

 Adams, Sir Thomas More, Wm. Hazlitt, Julian, S. S. Prentiss, Lord 

 Palmerston, Duke of Wellington, William the Silent, Sir Arthur Sulli- 

 van, Frederick the Great ("not of imposing stature" — Carlyle), 

 Admiral Nelson ("a little man of about medium height"), Schubert 

 ("moderately tall"), and as 5 feet 8 inches we have the names of 

 Grant, Theodore Parker and Rossetti. 



Under medium height were, according to their biographers, 

 Admiral Farragut, who was 5 feet 6^ inches, Oliver Wendell Holmes, 

 Paul Jones and General Phil Sheridan, each of whom was 5 



