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: Justinian and his council.] 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. III. 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 III. SUBJECT AUTHOR PAGE ALFRED THE GREAT, _Sir J. Bernard Burke, LL.D._, 101 ST. AMBROSE, _Rev. A. Lambing, LL.D._, 68 ARCHIMEDES, _John Timbs, F.S.A._, 59 ARISTOTLE, _Fenelon_, 54 ST. AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY, _Rt. Rev. Henry Codman Potter_, 88 ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, _James, Cardinal Gibbons_, 73 FRANCIS BACON, _Hon. Ignatius Donnelly_, 154 WILLIAM BRADFORD, _Elbridge S. Brooks_, 172 AUGUSTUS CAESAR, 66 JOHN CALVIN, 140 CHARLES I. OF ENGLAND, _F. Hindes Groome_, 177 _Letter written on the eve of his execution by Charles I. to his son_, 180 CHARLES V. OF GERMANY, 133 MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, _Rev. W. J. Brodribb_, 63 NICHOLAS COPERNICUS, _John Stoughton, D.D._, 122 OLIVER CROMWELL, _Lord Macaulay_, 181 DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL, _Margaret E. Sangster_, 10 DEMOSTHENES, _E. Benjamin Andrews_, 47 DIOGENES, _Fenelon_, 54 ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND, _Samuel L. Knapp_, 149 FREDERICK, THE GREAT ELECTOR, 189 GALILEO GALILEI, 161 JOHN HUSS, _Rev. Dr. Tweedy_, 106 ISABELLA OF CASTILE, _Sarah H. Killikelly_, 114 JUSTINIAN THE GREAT, 85 JOHN KNOX, _P. Hume Brown_, 144 LOUIS XI. OF FRANCE, _E. Spencer Biesly, M.A._, 111 LOUIS XIV., _Oliver Optic_, 192