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: The Berlin Conference.] 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. IV. 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 IV. SUBJECT AUTHOR PAGE JOHN ADAMS, _Edwin Williams_, 251 Letter from Adams to a friend on the "Destiny of America," 252 LOUIS AGASSIZ, _Asa Gray_, 350 PRINCE VON BISMARCK, _Prince Outisky_, 385 SIMON BOLIVAR, _Hon. John P. St. John_, 306 EDMUND BURKE, _Dr. Heinrich Geffcken_, 226 JEAN FRANCOIS CHAMPOLLION, _Georg Ebers_, 311 GROVER CLEVELAND, _Clarence Cook_, 403 GEORGES CUVIER, _John Stoughton, D.D._, 287 CHARLES DARWIN, _Arch. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S._, 355 BENJAMIN DISRAELI, _Harriet Prescott Spofford_, 370 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 231 LEON GAMBETTA, 363 WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, _Justin McCarthy_, 377 HORACE GREELEY, _Noah Brooks_, 345 ALEXANDER HAMILTON, 265 PATRICK HENRY, _General Bradley T. Johnson_, 236 ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, _Louis Agassiz_, 292 ANDREW JACKSON, _Thomas Wentworth Higginson_, 317 THOMAS JEFFERSON, _Hon. John B. Henderson_, 256 ABRAHAM LINCOLN, _Terence Vincent Powderly_, 338 WILLIAM MCKINLEY, _Rossiter Johnson_, 398 MARIA THERESA, _Anna C. Brackett_, 221 COUNT DE MIRABEAU, _Charles S. Hathaway_, 273 ISAAC NEWTON, _John Stoughton, D.D._, 211 DANIEL O'CONNELL, _Justin McCarthy_, 300 CHARLES STEWART PARNELL, _Thomas Davidson_, 395 JEAN HENRI PESTALOZZI, _Harriet Martineau_, 282