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Greeley

Il.Bost, D. Lothrop, n. d. $1.50
A carefully prepared and interesting- biography of this noted man.

Hamilton

N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co., 1890 75c
Author has endeavored to show how and in what sense Alexander Hamilton was one of the makers of this American state.

Hannibal

N. Y., Harper & Bros., $1
The reader may rely upon the records in these volumes as the truth, and nothing but the truth.

Heroes of the Nations Series.

N. Y., Putnam's Sons, II., n. d., per volume SI. 50

"No more admirable series of lives of famous men is at present on the market than the 'Heroes of the Nations.'"

Alexander the Great, and the merging of East and West in universal history. By Benj. Ide Wheelock.
Alfred the Truth Teller, and the first kingdom in England. By Frederick Perry.
Arc, Jeanne d' ; the maid of France. By Mrs. O. W. Oliphant.
Bismarck and the new German empire; how it arose and what it displaced. By J. W. Headlam.
Bruce, Robert, and the struggle for Scottish independence. By Sir Herbert Maxwell.
Caesar, Julius, and the foundation of the Roman empire. By W. W. Fowler.
Charlemagne, the hero of two nations. By H. W. C. Davis.
Charles the Bold of Burgundy, and the attempt to found a middle kingdom in Europe, By R. Lodge.
Charles XII., and the collapse of the Swedish empire, 1682-1719. By R. N. Bain.
Columbus, Christopher, his life and voyages. By W. Irving.
Cicero, and the fall of the Roman republic. By J. L. S. Davidson.
Cid Campeador and the waning of the crescent in the West. By H. B. Clark.
Cromwell, Oliver, and the reign of the Puritans in England. By C. Frith.
Edward I., or the old law and the new. By Edward Jenks.
Frederick II., the wonder of the world. By A. L. Smith.
Glynder, Owen, the national hero of Wales. By A. G. Bradley.
Grant, Ulysses S., and the period of national preservation and reconstruction. By W. C. Church.
Gustavus Adolphus and the struggle of Protestantism for existance. By C. R. L. Fletcher.
Hannibal, soldier, statesman, patriot, and the crisis of the struggle between Carthage and Rome. By W. O'C. Morris.