THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS JOINT EDITORS ARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J.A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia VOL. X LIVES AND LETTERS * * * * * Table of Contents HUGO, VICTOR Deeds and Words HUME, MARTIN Courtships of Elizabeth Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots IRVING, WASHINGTON Life of Christopher Columbus Life of George Washington JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS Autobiography LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: See ROCHEFOUCAULD LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON Life of Sir Walter Scott Life of Robert Burns LUTHER, MARTIN Table Talk MIRABEAU, COMTE DE Memoirs MOORE, THOMAS Life of Byron MORISON, J.A.C. Life of St. Bernard MORLEY, JOHN Life of Cobden PEPYS, SAMUEL Diary PLINY THE YOUNGER Letters RICHELIEU, CARDINAL Political Testament ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES Confessions ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANÇOIS DUC de LA Memoirs SÉVIGNÉ, Mme. de Letters SOUTHEY, ROBERT Life of Nelson STAAL, Mme. de Memoirs STANHOPE, EARL Life of Pitt STANLEY, A.P. Life of Thomas Arnold, D.D. STRICKLAND, AGNES Life of Queen Elizabeth SWIFT, JONATHAN Journal to Stella TOLSTOY, COUNT LYOF N. Childhood, Boyhood, Youth My Confession VILLARI, PASQUALE Life of Girolamo Savanarola WESLEY, JOHN Journal WOOLMAN, JOHN Journal A Complete Index of THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS will be found at the end of Volume XX. * * * * * _Acknowledgement_ Acknowledgement and thanks for permitting the use of the following selections in this volume, viz., "The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth," and "The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots," by Major Martin Hume, are herewith tendered to Everleigh Nash, of London, England. * * * * * VICTOR HUGO Deeds and Words