_Translated from the German by_ GEORGE P. UPTON 44 Volumes Now Ready _American Explorers_ Columbus Francisco Pizarro Cortes Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky, and Other Pre-Columbian Discoverers of America _Historical and Biographical_ Washington Franklin Penn Maximilian Barbarossa William of Orange Maria Theresa The Maid of Orleans Frederick the Great The Little Dauphin Herman and Thusnelda The Swiss Heroes Marie Antoinette’s Youth The Duke of Brittany Louise, Queen of Prussia The Youth of the Great Elector Emperor William First Elizabeth, Empress of Austria Charlemagne Prince Eugene Eugenie, Empress of the French Queen Maria Sophia of Naples Emin Pasha General (“Chinese”) Gordon David Livingstone Stanley’s Journey through the Dark Continent _Musical Biography_ Beethoven Mozart Johann Sebastian Bach Joseph Haydn _Legendary_ Frithjof Saga Gudrun The Nibelungs William Tell Arnold of Winkelried Undine Ulysses of Ithaca Achilles Gods and Heroes The Argonautic Expedition and the Labors of Hercules Illustrated. Each 50 cents _net_ A. C. McCLURG & CO., Chicago Transcriber’s Notes --Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication. --In the text versions, delimited italics text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.) --Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Gods and Heroes, by Ferdinand Schmidt and Carl Frederich Becker