[Footnote 40: From Chapter LVIII of the "History of Greece." Altho several histories of Greece have been written since Grote's, his work "still remains in some respects the greatest," says A. D. Lindsay, his latest editor. Grote, in a sense, stands to Greece as Gibbon to the Roman Empire. He depended mainly on the literary sources, archaeology in his day having done little to widen knowledge. His work is therefore defective in its earlier parts, but from the sixth century down, when the literary sources begin, he is "still almost as valuable as ever."] [Footnote 41: The expedition to Sicily of which, as recorded by Thucydides, two notable incidents are given in Volume I of this collection.] [Footnote 42: Alcibiades was a leader of the party which had favored the expedition, and which prevailed at last over bitter opposition.] [Footnote 43: From Chapter XCIV of the "History of Greece." Alexander's death, which took place at Babylon in 323 B.C., was due to a fever, which followed a carouse and lasted twelve days.] [Footnote 44: This battle was fought In 338 B.C. between Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great's father, and the combined forces of Boeotia and Athens.] [Footnote 45: The Sea of Azoff in ancient times bore this name.] THOMAS CARLYLE Born in 1795, died in 1881; educated in Edinburgh; schoolmaster at Kirkcaldy in 1816; wrote for cyclopedias in Edinburgh; became a private tutor in 1822; visited London and Paris in 1824-25; married Jane Welsh in 1826; lived at Craigenputtoch in 1828-34, settled at Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, in 1834; elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University in 1866; his "Life of Schiller," published in 1825; "Sartor Resartus" in 1833, "The French Revolution" in 1837, "Heroes and Hero Worship" in 1841, "Oliver Cromwell" in 1845, "Frederick the Great" in 1858-65. I CHARLOTTE CORDAY[46]