CHARLES A. DANA. ⭘ One of Our Foremost Men ⭘ Birth and Early Life ⭘ A Remarkable Life ⭘ His Education and College Career ⭘ Joining the “Brook Farm” Men ⭘ His First Journalistic Experience ⭘ On the New York “Tribune” ⭘ Busy Years ⭘ Difference Between Mr. Greeley and Mr. Dana ⭘ Assistant Secretary of War ⭘ One Year in Chicago ⭘ Manager of the New York “Sun” ⭘ ‘Roscoe Conkling’ LYMAN ABBOTT. ⭘ Ancestors, Birth and Education ⭘ Ordained a Minister ⭘ Secretary to the American Freedmen’s Commission ⭘ Work as a Journalist ⭘ Successor of Henry Ward Beecher ⭘ Prolific Publisher ⭘ Successful Pulpit Speaker ⭘ ‘The Jesuits’ ⭘ ‘The Destruction of the Cities of the Plain’ HENRY W. WATTERSON. ⭘ Influential Modern Journalist ⭘ Birth and Education ⭘ Editor of the “Republican Banner” ⭘ Service in the Confederate Army ⭘ The “Courier-Journal,” Louisville, Ky. ⭘ Prominent Part in Politics ⭘ ‘The New South’ MURAT HALSTEAD. ⭘ One of the Greatest Living Journalists ⭘ Nativity, Early Life and Education ⭘ Editor of “The Commercial,” Cincinnati, Ohio ⭘ A Continued Success ⭘ Correspondent During the Franco-Prussian War, 1870 ⭘ In Washington and New York ⭘ Home and Family Life ⭘ ‘The Young Man at the Door’ WHITELAW REID. ⭘ “Fortune Favors the Brave” ⭘ Birth and Early Training ⭘ War Correspondent to the “Cincinnati Gazette” ⭘ An Important Work ⭘ Editorial Writer Upon N. Y. “Tribune” ⭘ His Most Prominent Works ⭘ His Palatial Home and Family Life ⭘ ‘Pictures of a Louisiana Plantation’ ALBERT SHAW. ⭘ Birth, Education and Personal Characteristics ⭘ Residence in Baltimore ⭘ On the Minneapolis Daily “Tribune” ⭘ Extensive Studies Abroad ⭘ Editor of the “Review of Reviews” ⭘ Great Success ⭘ ‘Recent Development of the West’ JULIAN HAWTHORNE. ⭘ His Imaginative Power, Vivid Statement ⭘ Parentage, Birth and Travels Abroad ⭘ College Life and Early Training ⭘ Long Sojourn Abroad ⭘ Some of his Most Prominent Works ⭘ Expedition to India ⭘ ‘The Wayside and the War’ ⭘ ‘First Months in England’ ⭘ ‘The Horrors of the Plague in India’ RICHARD HARDING DAVIS. ⭘ Marvelous Skill in Seeing the World ⭘ A Clever Newspaper Reporter ⭘ Birth and Hereditary Bent for Letters ⭘ Interesting Career as a Journalist ⭘ The Book that Made Him Famous ⭘ Some of His Other Works ⭘ ‘The Greek Defence of Velestino’ PATRICK HENRY. ⭘ His Talents as a Popular Orator ⭘ Parentage and Education ⭘ Marriage and Early Life ⭘ A Prominent Lawyer ⭘ Bold Principles ⭘ The Leader of his Colony ⭘ The First Governor of Virginia ⭘ His Death ⭘ ‘Resistance to British Aggression’ ⭘ ‘The War Inevitable’