JOHN PAUL JONES. (After a rare engraving), 263 SIGNATURE OF RICHARD DALE. (From a letter at the Lenox Library), 266 A LETTER FROM PIERRE LANDAIS. (From the original at the Lenox Library), 268 JOHN PAUL JONES. (From a miniature recently found [1897] in a cellar at the Naval Academy), 269 JOHN PAUL JONES (IN COCKED HAT). (From a very rare engraving at the Navy Department, Washington), 271 JOHN PAUL JONES. (From an engraving by Chapman in the collection of Mr. W. C. Crane), 273 JOHN PAUL JONES’S MEDAL, 276 JOHN PAUL JONES AND THE _SERAPIS_ FIGHT. (From an engraving in the collection of Mr. W. C. Crane), 278 A LETTER FROM JOHN PAUL JONES TO THOMAS JEFFERSON. (From the original at the Lenox Library), 279 SIGNATURE OF HOYSTED HACKER. (From a letter at the Lenox Library), 283 SIR GEORGE COLLIER’S VICTORY IN PENOBSCOT BAY, 1779. (From a very rare engraving at the Lenox Library), 285 MAP OF THE ATTACK ON THE PENOBSCOT FORT. (From a contemporary map at the Lenox Library), 288–9 SIGNATURE OF SAMUEL NICHOLSON. (From a letter at the Lenox Library), 290 JAMES NICHOLSON. (After a miniature in the possession of Miss Josephine L. Stevens), 296 AN OLD NAVAL ORDER. (From the original at the Lenox Library), 301 A MEDITERRANEAN CORSAIR ANCHORING. (From a picture drawn and engraved by Baugean), 306 JOHN BARRY’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER OF THE _UNITED STATES_. (From the original at the Naval Academy, Annapolis), 313 A FRENCH VESSEL OF 118 GUNS, A CENTURY AGO. (From an engraving by Canali), 318 DIAGRAM OF THE _INSURGENT-CONSTELLATION_ BATTLE, 321 A FRENCH VESSEL OF 120 GUNS. (From an engraving by Orio), 322 MEDAL AWARDED TO THOMAS TRUXTON, 325 PORTRAIT OF TRUXTON AND PRESIDENT ADAMS’S LETTER TO HIM. (From a lithograph at the Naval Academy, Annapolis), 326 TRUXTON’S MEDAL AND THE CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION AWARDING IT TO HIM, 327 THE _SALLY_ ATTACKED BY A SEA-SERPENT OFF THE SHORE OF LONG ISLAND. (From a French engraving), 331