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: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained.] [Illustration: Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra.] 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. VIII. Copyright, 1894, BY SELMAR HESS edited by Charles F. Horne [Illustration: Publisher's arm.] New-York: Selmar Hess Publisher CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII. SUBJECT AUTHOR PAGE MICHAEL ANGELO, _Anna Jameson_, 214 BEETHOVEN, _C. E. Bourne_, 319 SARAH BERNHARDT, _H. S. Edwards_, 382 ROSA BONHEUR, _Clarence Cook_, 276 EDWIN BOOTH, _Clarence Cook_, 370 CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN, _Dutton Cook_, 355 _Letter from Miss Cushman to a young friend on the subject of "Self-conquest,"_ 362 LEONARDO DA VINCI, _Anna Jameson_, 209 GUSTAVE DORÉ, _Kenyon Cox_, 298 ALBERT DÜRER, _W. J. Holland_, 231 EDWIN FORREST, _Lawrence Barrett_, 349 DAVID GARRICK, _Samuel Archer_, 343 GÉRÔME, _Clarence Cook_, 281 HANDEL, _C. E. Bourne_, 302 HAYDN, _C. E. Bourne_, 315 WILLIAM HOGARTH, 247 JOSEPH JEFFERSON, _Clarence Cook_, 374 FRANZ LISZT, _Rev. Hugh R. Haweis, M.A._, 332 MEISSONIER, _Clarence Cook_, 272 MENDELSSOHN, _C. F. Bourne_, 326 JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET, _Clarence Cook_, 265 MOZART, _C. E. Bourne_, 308 PAGANINI, 325 ADELINA PATTI, _Frederick F. Buffen_, 378 PHIDIAS, _Clarence Cook_, 203 RACHEL, _Dutton Cook_, 363 RAPHAEL, _Mrs. Lee_, 221 REMBRANDT, _Elizabeth Robins Pennell_, 240 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, _Samuel Archer_, 250