Produced by Sigal Alon, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained. Captions marked with [TN] have been added while producing this file.] [Illustration: Attila, "The Scourge of God".] 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 [Illustration: Publisher's arm.] 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 CAESAR, _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. Vambery_, 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