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GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN

A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of

THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN HISTORY

VOL. I.

Copyright, 1894, BY SELMAR HESS

edited by Charles F. Horne

New-York: Selmar Hess Publisher

Copyright, 1894, by SELMAR HESS.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

SUBJECT AUTHOR PAGE

ALARIC THE BOLD, Archdeacon Farrar, D.D., F.R.S., 56 ALEXANDER THE GREAT, 10 MARC ANTONY, 37 ATTILA, Archdeacon Farrar, D.D., F.R.S., 59 BELISARIUS, Charlotte M. Yonge, 64 GODFREY DE BOUILLON, Henry G. Hewlett, 97 JULIUS CÆSAR, E. Spencer Beesly, M.A., 32 CHARLEMAGNE, Sir J. Bernard Burke, 75 CLOVIS THE FIRST, Thomas Wyatt, A.M., 61 GASPARD DE COLIGNI, Professor Creasy, 164 HERNANDO CORTES, H. Rider Haggard, 150 CYRUS THE GREAT, Clarence Cook, 5 DIOCLETIAN, 50 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, 176 EDWARD I. OF ENGLAND, Thomas Davidson, 109 EDWARD III. OF ENGLAND, 114 EDWARD, THE BLACK PRINCE, L. Drake, 119 BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN, 127 GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, 199 HANNIBAL, Walter Whyte, 14 HENRY IV. OF FRANCE, 171 HENRY V. OF ENGLAND, G. P. R. James, 129 HERMANN, 40 JOHN HUNIADES, Professor A. Vambéry, 136 CAIUS MARIUS, James Anthony Froude, LL.D., 25 CHARLES MARTEL, Henry G. Hewlett, 69 NEBUCHADNEZZAR, Clarence Cook, 1 PEPIN THE SHORT, Henry G. Hewlett, 72 FRANCISCO PIZARRO, J. T. Trowbridge, 156 SIR WALTER RALEIGH, 182 SALADIN, Walter Besant, 106 SCIPIO AFRICANUS MAJOR, 18 MILES STANDISH, Elbridge S. Brooks, 189 TRAJAN, J. S. Reid, Litt. D., 42 OLAF TRYGGVESON, Thomas Carlyle, 83 ALBRECHT VON WALLENSTEIN, Henry G. Hewlett, 194 WARWICK, THE KING-MAKER, 146 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, G. W. Prothero, 92

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME I.

PHOTOGRAVURES

ILLUSTRATION ARTIST TO FACE PAGE

ATTILA, "THE SCOURGE OF GOD," Ulpiano Checa Frontispiece "AND HE WAS DRIVEN FROM MEN, AND DID EAT GRASS AS OXEN," Georges Rochegrosse 4 HANNIBAL CROSSING THE RHONE, Henri-Paul Motte 14 HERMANN'S TRIUMPH OVER THE ROMANS, Paul Thumann 40 ROME UNDER TRAJAN--A CHARIOT RACE, Ulpiano Checa 48 THE VICTIMS OF GALERIUS, E. K. Liska 54 ALARIC IN ATHENS, Ludwig Thiersch 56 CHARLEMAGNE AT WITIKIND'S BAPTISM, Paul Thumann 78 HENRY V. REJECTS FALSTAFF, Eduard Grützner 132 THE ADMIRAL OF THE SPANISH ARMADA SURRENDERS TO DRAKE, Seymour Lucas 180 GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS BEFORE THE BATTLE OF LUTZEN, Ludwig Braun 202

WOOD-ENGRAVINGS AND TYPOGRAVURES

ALEXANDER DISCOVERING THE BODY OF DARIUS, Gustave Doré 12 GENEROSITY OF SCIPIO, Schopin 20 MARIUS ON THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE, John Vanderlyn 32 THE IDES OF MARCH, Carl Von Piloty 36 THE LAST GLADIATORIAL CONTEST, J. Stallaert 58 CLOVIS PUNISHING A REBEL, Alphonse De Neuville 62 BELISARIUS RECEIVING ALMS, Jacques-Louis David 68 CHARLES MARTEL AT TOURS, Charles Steuben 72 PEPIN AFTER THE MURDER OF DUKE WAIFRE, Th. Lybaert 74 A NORSE RAID UNDER OLAF, Hugo Vogel 84 WILLIAM AT HASTINGS, P. J. De Loutherbourg 94 GODFREY DE BOUILLON ENTERING JERUSALEM, Carl Von Piloty 104 SALADIN, Gustave Doré 108 EDWARD III. AND THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS, Berthelemy 118 BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN, Alphonse De Neuville 128 HUNIADES AT BELGRADE, Gustave Doré 146 YORK AND LANCASTER--THE RED AND WHITE ROSES, 148 PIZARRO EXHORTING HIS BAND AT GALLO, Lizcano 158 HENRY IV. OF FRANCE AT HOME, J. D. Ingres 176 RALEIGH PARTING FROM HIS WIFE, E. Leutze 188 DEPARTURE OF THE MAYFLOWER, A. W. Bayes 192 WALLENSTEIN'S LAST BANQUET, J. Scholz 198

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS

Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest Your truth and valor wearing: The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.

--BAYARD TAYLOR

NEBUCHADNEZZAR

By CLARENCE COOK

(645-561 B.C.)

With the death of Sardanapalus, the great monarch of Assyria, and the taking of Nineveh, the capital city, by the Medes, the kingdom of Assyria came to an end, and the vast domain was parcelled out among the conquerors. At the time of the catastrophe, the district of Babylonia, with its capital city Babylon, was ruled as a dependent satrapy of Assyria by Nabopolassar. Aided by the Medes, he now took possession of the province and established himself as an independent monarch, strengthening the alliance by a marriage between the Princess Amuhia, the daughter of the Median king, and his son Nebuchadnezzar.

In the partition of Assyria, the region stretching from Egypt to the upper Euphrates, including Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine, had fallen to the share of Nabopolassar. But the tribes that peopled it were not disposed to accept the rule of the new claimant, and looked about for an ally to support them in their resistance. Such an ally they thought they had found in Egypt.