XXXVIII. Energy and Earnestness Win an Actor Fame—_Richard Mansfield_ 379 XXXIX. A Father’s Common-Sense Gives America a Great Bandmaster—_John Philip Sousa_ 384 PHILANTHROPY. XL. Blind, Deaf and Dumb, Patient Effort Wins Her Culture and Rare Womanhood—_Helen Keller_ 391 XLI. Jay Gould’s Chum Chooses “High Thinking, Not Money-Making,” and Wins Success Without Riches—_John Burroughs_ 402 XLII. A Millionaire’s Daughter Makes Inherited Wealth a Blessing to Thousands—_Helen Miller Gould_ 413 XLIII. A Self-Made Merchant Solves the Problem of Practical Philanthropy—_Nathan Strauss_ 420 DIVINITY. XLIV. A Varied Career Develops the Resourceful Head of a Great Institutional Church and College—_Russell H. Conwell_ 426 XLV. An Inspiring Personality Wins a Noted Preacher Fame—_Frank W. Gunsaulus_ 432 XLVI. From the Forge to the Pulpit, a Life of Devotion and Application—_Robert Collyer_ 441 CANADIANS. XLVII. Canada’s Leading Conservative Extols “the Country of the Twentieth Century”—_Robert Laird Borden_ 447 XLVIII. An Eminent Scholar Advocates the Union of Canada and the United States—_Goldwin Smith_ 454 XLIX. After Failure as a Grocer, He Becomes the Ablest Administrator Quebec Has Ever Had—_S. N. Parent_ 460 L. Canada’s Leading Economist Tells Her Sons to Seek Fortune in Her Own Domain—_Andrew G. Blair_ 470 LI. A Distinguished Educator Has Found Contentment in the Simple Life—_James Loudon_ 479 LII. Beginning as Telegraph Operator He Built the Canadian Pacific—_Sir William C. Van Horne_ 485 LIII. An Immigrant Boy Becomes a National Figure in Reform—_Samuel Jones_ 498 LIV. A “Forty-niner” who Seized Opportunities Others Failed to See—_Philip D. Armour_ 511 LV. The Blind Yacht Designer Attributes His Conquests to His Mother’s Early Care—_John B. Herreshoff_ 528 LVI. A Great Vocalist Shows that Only Years of Labor Can Win the Heights of Song—_Lillian Nordica_ 541 INTRODUCTION