Of Napoleon Bonaparte. (From "Considerations on the French Revolution") VISCOUNT DE CHATEAUBRIAND--(Born in 1768, died in 1848.) In an American Forest. (From the "Historical Essay on Revolutions") FRANÇOIS GUIZOT--(Born in 1787, died in 1874.) Shakespeare as an Example of Civilization. (From "Shakespeare and His Times") ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE--(Born in 1790, died in 1869.) Of Mirabeau's Origin and Place in History. (From Book I of the "History of the Girondists." Translated by T. Ryde) LOUIS ADOLPH THIERS--(Born in 1797, died in 1877.) The Burning of Moscow. (From the "History of the Consulate and the Empire") HONORÉ DE BALZAC--(Born in 1799, died in 1850.) I The Death of Père Goriot. (From the concluding chapter of "Père Goriot." Translated by Helen Marriàge) II Birotteau's Early Married Life. (From "The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau." Translated by Helen Marriàge) ALFRED DE VIGNY--(Born in 1799, died in 1863.) Richelieu's Way with His Master. (From "Cinq-Mars; or, The Conspiracy under Louis XIII." Translated by William C. Hazlitt) VICTOR HUGO--(Born in France in 1802, died in 1885.) I The Battle of Waterloo. (From Chapter XV of "Cosette," in "Les Misérables." Translated by Lascelles Wraxall) II The Beginnings and Expansions of Paris. (From Book III, Chapter II, of "Notre-Dame de Paris") ALEXANDER DUMAS--(Born in 1802, died in 1870.) The Shoulder, the Belt and the Handkerchief. (From "The Three Musketeers") GEORGE SAND--(Born in 1804, died in 1876.) Lélia and the Poet. (From "Lélia") EARLY CONTINENTAL WRITERS 354 A.D.--1471 A.D. ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE Born in Numidia, Africa, in 354 A.D., died in 430; educated at Carthage; taught rhetoric at Carthage; removed to Rome in 383; going thence to Milan in 384, where he became a friend of St. Ambrose; converted from Manicheanism to Christianity by his mother Monica, and baptized by St. Ambrose in 387; made Bishop of Hippo in North Africa in 395; became a champion of orthodoxy and the most celebrated of the fathers of the Latin branch of the Church; his "Confessions" published in 397. IMPERIAL POWER FOR GOOD AND BAD MEN[1]