Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Chris Logan, Brian Janes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net AMERICAN MEN OF MIND BY BURTON E. STEVENSON AUTHOR OF "A GUIDE TO BIOGRAPHY--MEN OF ACTION," "A SOLDIER OF VIRGINIA," ETC.; COMPILER OF "DAYS AND DEEDS--POETRY," "DAYS AND DEEDS--PROSE," ETC. GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1913 * * * * * COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY * * * * * Published, June, 1910 * * * * * [Illustration: LONGFELLOW] * * * * * CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I.--"MEN OF MIND" 11 II.--WRITERS OF PROSE 19 Summary to Chapter II 49 III.--WRITERS OF VERSE 54 Summary to Chapter III 80 IV.--PAINTERS 85 Summary to Chapter IV 120 V.--SCULPTORS 125 Summary to Chapter V 154 VI.--THE STAGE 157 Summary to Chapter VI 182 VII.--SCIENTISTS AND EDUCATORS 186 Summary to Chapter VII 224 VIII.--PHILANTHROPISTS AND REFORMERS 231 Summary to Chapter VIII 286 IX.--MEN OF AFFAIRS 291 Summary to Chapter IX 324 X.--INVENTORS 327 Summary to Chapter X 371 INDEX 375 * * * * * LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Longfellow _Frontispiece_ Hawthorne 28 Emerson 44 Greeley 48 Stuart 92 Booth 158 Agassiz 190 Eliot 216 Girard 232 Beecher 252 Wanamaker 314 Morse 336 * * * * * CHAPTER I "MEN OF MIND" In the companion volume of this series, "Men of Action," the attempt was made to give the essential facts of American history by sketching in broad outline the men who made that history--the discoverers, pioneers, presidents, statesmen, soldiers, and sailors--and describing the part which each of them played.