Hmericans (Continued) 



The first three volumes are ready. 

 LEADING AMERICAN SOLDIERS 



WASHINGTON, GREENE, TAYLOR, SCOTT, ANDREW JACKSON, GRANT, 

 SHERMAN, SHERIDAN, MCCLELLAN, MEADE, LEE, "STONEWALL" JACK- 

 SON, JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON. By R. M. Johnston, Lecturer in Harvard 

 University, Author of "Napoleon," etc. Large I2mo. With thirteen 

 portraits. $1-75 net. The persons treated will be remembered chiefly as 

 soldiers, and as soldiers they are here presented. 



LEADING AMERICAN NOVELISTS 



CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN, COOPER, SIMMS, HAWTHORNE, MRS. 

 STOWE and BRET HARTE. By John Erskine, Adjunct Professor in Colum- 

 bia University. Large I2mo. With six portraits. $1-75 net. 

 LEADING AMERICAN ESSAYISTS 



A General Introduction dealing with essay writing in America and 

 biographies of IRVING, EMERSON, THOREAU and GEORG^ WILLIAM CURTIS. 

 By William Morton Payne, Associate Editor of the The Dial. Large I2mo. 

 With four portrait*. j *j * 



The following additional volumes are already arranged for : 



Leading American Men of Science. BENJAMIN THOMPSON, COUNT 

 RUMFORD, by Edwin E. Slosson ; ALEXANDER WILSON, by Witmer Stone ; 

 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, by Witmer Stone ; BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, by Daniel 

 Coit Gilman ; JOSEPH HENRY, by Simon Newcomb; Louis AGASSIZ, by 

 Charles Frederick Holder; JEFFRIES WYMAN, by Burt G. Wilder; ASA 

 GRAY, by John M. Coulter; JAMKS DWIGHT DANA, by William North Rice; 

 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, by Charles Frederick Holder ; OTHNIEL 

 CHARLES MARSH, by George Bird Grinnell ; EDWARD DRINKER COPE, by 

 Marcus Benjamin ; JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS, by Edwin E. Slosson ; SIMON 

 NEWCOMB, by Marcus Benjamin ; GEORGE BROWN GOODE. by David Starr 

 Jordan ; HENRY AUGUSTUS ROWLAND, by Ira Remsen ; WILLIAM KEITH 

 BROOKS, by E. A. Andrews. Edited by David Starr Jordan, President of 

 Leland Stanford University. 



Leading American Lawyers. By Henry C. Merwin, Author of 

 "Thomas Jefferson" (Riverside Biographical Series), "Aaron Burr" 

 (Beacon Biographies), etc. 



Leading American Poets. By Curtis Hidden Page, Professor of Eng- 

 lish Literature in Northwestern University. 



Leading American Statesmen. By John Spencer Bassett, Professor 

 of History in Smith College. 



Leading American Editors. By Frank W. Scott, Assistant Professor 

 in the University of Illinois. 



Leading American Explorers. By Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, Secre- 

 tary of the American Geographical Society and author of "The Romance 

 of the Colorado River," etc. 



Leading American Inventors. By George lies, author of "Flame, 

 Electricity and the Camera," "Inventors at Work with Chapters on 

 Discovery," etc. 



Biographies of Leading American Actors, Artists, Historians, Engi- 

 neers, Naval Commanders, Philanthropists and others will, with the favor 

 of the public, soon be announced. 



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