Produced by Sigal Alon, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Transcriber's note: ^ is used to mark superscript.] [Illustration: Columbus before Isabella.] 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. V. 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 V. SUBJECT AUTHOR PAGE AENEAS, _Charlotte M. Yonge_, 12 ETHAN ALLEN, _Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham_, 200 KING ARTHUR, _Rev. S. Baring-Gould_, 36 THE CHEVALIER BAYARD, _Herbert Greenhough Smith_, 145 ST. BERNARD, _Henry G. Hewlett_, 60 ROBERT BRUCE, _Sir J. Bernard Burke, LL.D._, 105 WILLIAM CAXTON, 129 THE CID, _Henry G. Hewlett_, 56 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, _A. R. Spofford, LL.D._, 131 CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, _Oliver Optic_, 188 ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, _George Parsons Lathrop, LL.D._, 78 FREDERICK BARBAROSSA, _Lady Lamb_, 65 VASCO DA GAMA, _Judge Albion W. Tourgee_, 139 THE GRACCHI, _James Anthony Froude, LL.D._, 20 GUSTAVUS VASA, _Charles F. Horne_, 153 HANS GUTENBERG, _Alphonse de Lamartine_, 121 HAROLD, KING OF ENGLAND, 54 WILLIAM HARVEY, 172 HERCULES, _Charlotte M. Yonge_, 1 JOHN HOWARD, _Harriet G. Walker_, 194 JOAN OF ARC, _Ella Wheeler Wilcox_, 113 LEIF ERICSON, _Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen_, 49 ST. LOUIS, _Henry G. Hewlett_, 86 MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, _Samuel L. Knapp_, 159 MARCO POLO, _Noah Brooks_, 92 RICHARD COEUR DE LION, 71 ROLAND, 39 ROLLO THE GANGER, _Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen_, 44 SIEGFRIED, _Karl Blind_, 31 CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH, _Marion Harland_, 166 PRINCE CHARLES STUART, _Andrew Lang, LL.D._, 177