V POETS 147 Alfred Kreymborg William Blake John Keats Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Rimbaud VI WARRIORS 179 Lord Wolseley Robert E. Lee VII EDITORS 188 Edward P. Mitchell Edward W. Bok Joseph Pulitzer J. St. Loe Strachey VIII CLERGYMEN 202 Dr. Frank Crane W. J. Dawson IX ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS 212 Walter Damrosch Irving Berlin Maria Jeritza Emil Fuchs X ACTORS AND ACTRESSES 225 Eleonora Duse Charles Hawtrey Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson Otis Skinner George Cohan The Unsuccessful Actor Weber and Fields XI STATESMEN 242 Woodrow Wilson Brigham Young Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt XII EDUCATORS 277 Sir William Osler G. Stanley Hall XIII PRIZE FIGHTERS 291 John L. Sullivan James J. Corbett XIV FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY 300 Ariel The Divine Lady The Nightingale XV MISCELLANEOUS 308 A. Henry Savage Landor Eric Horne XVI THE LADIES 314 Madame Récamier Rebekah Kohut Kathleen Norris Rheta Childe Dorr Yang Kuei-Fei BOOKS CITED 331 INDEX 337 PORTRAITS FACING PAGE MARK TWAIN 74 ANATOLE FRANCE 98 Courtesy of Edward Wassermann THOMAS BURKE 136 JOHN KEATS IN HIS LAST ILLNESS 158 By permission of “The Century Magazine” JOSEPH PULITZER 196 Courtesy of “The New York World” WALTER DAMROSCH 212 Photograph by Gutekunst