The Greatest Lives and Letters Volume 2
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 VICTOR HUGO
Deeds and Words
I.--Right and Law
II.--Days of Childhood
III.--Before the Exile
IV.--Republican Principles
V.--In Exile
VI.--After the Exile
MARTIN HUME
The Courtships of Elizabeth
I.--Foreign Philandering
II.--The Nine Years' Comedy
III.--Catholics and Heretics
IV.--The Lovelorn Alençon
V.--The Battle of Wits
The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots
I.--Betrothed in her Cradle
II.--Intrigue, Plot, and Intrigue
III.--Prudence Overcome by Passion
IV.--Dire Infatuation
V.--Langside and After
WASHINGTON IRVING
Life of Christopher Columbus
The Years of Waiting
The First Voyage
(August, 1492--March, 1493)
The Second Voyage
(September, 1493--June, 1496)
The Third Voyage
(May, 1498--October, 1500)
The Fourth Voyage
(May, 1502--November, 1504)
Life of George Washington
Conflicts with the French
The Dawn of Independence
Declaration of Independence
The Winning of Independence
The Years of Peace
JOSEPHUS
Autobiography
I.--Priest of the Blood-Royal
II.--The Prelude to the Great Crisis
III.--Governor of Galilee
IV.--The Failure of His Foes
JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART
Life of Sir Walter Scott
Early Years
The Poet's Education
Marriage
Early Poems
Scott's Chief Poems
The Waverley Novels
Abbotsford
The End of All
The Life of Robert Burns
I.--The Poet in the Making
II.--The Loves of a Peasant Poet
III.--Burns at His Zenith
IV.--The Clarinda Romance
V.--Closing Years of the Poet's Life
MARTIN LUTHER
Table Talk
God's Word and Book
God's Dealing with Us
Points from "Popedom"
Patristic Literature
Hints for Preachers
Time's Forelock
Modern Luxury
Ministers and Matrimony
Miscellaneous Topics
Strong Opinions Outworn by Time
Characteristic Sayings
MIRABEAU
Memoirs
I.--"The Hurricane"
II.--Into Political Life
III.--For King and People
IV.--President of the National Assembly
THOMAS MOORE
Life of Byron
I.--Ancestors and Early Days
II.--The Poet Finds Himself
III.--Byron's Unfortunate Marriage
IV.--Wanderings and Work
V.--A Bewildering Personality
JAMES COTTER MORISON
Life and Times of St. Bernard
I.--The Early Days of a Useful Life
II.--A Great Preacher and Essayist
III.--St. Bernard and the Second Crusade
JOHN MORLEY
Life of Richard Cobden
I.--On the Road
II.--The Corn Laws
III.--Cobden and Bright
IV.--In the Cause of Peace
V.--Cobden as Treaty-Maker
VI.--The Last Days of Cobden
SAMUEL PEPYS
Diary
I.--"God Bless King Charles"
II.--The Plague
III.--The Great Fire
IV.--Of the Badness of the Government
V.--The End of the Diary
PLINY THE YOUNGER
Letters
To Cornelius Tacitus
To Minucius Fundanus
To Septicius Clarus
To Avitus
To Baebius Macer
To Cornelius Tacitus
To Calpurnia, His Wife
To Germinius
To the Emperor Trajan
CARDINAL RICHELIEU
Political Testament
Retrospect
Of Education
Of the Nobility
Of the Disorders of Justice
To the Officers of Finance
Of the People
Reason and Government
Public Interests First
The Power of Kingship
The Whole Duty of Princes
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Confessions
Madame de Warens
Three Years in Turin
Seeking a Career
Our Little Circle
Les Charmettes
The Gathering Gloom
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Memoirs
Court Intrigues
Richelieu's Death
Under Mazarin's Rule
Wars of the Fronde
MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ
Letters
Love for her Daughter
The Brinvilliers Affair
Devotion
Love of Life
The Order of God
The Prince of Orange and England
Old Age
ROBERT SOUTHEY
The Life of Nelson
I.--A Captain at Twenty
II.--In the Mediterranean
III.--St. Vincent and the Nile
IV.--Lady Hamilton
V.--Trafalgar
MADAME DE STAAL
Memoirs
A Convent Child
Thrown on the World
Political Intrigues
In the Bastille
EARL STANHOPE
Life of William Pitt
I.--The Boy Statesman
II.--The Regency Problem
III.--The Struggle with France
IV.--Resignation
V.--The Last Ministry
ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY
The Life of Thomas Arnold, D.D.
I.--Youth and Early Manhood
II.--Headmaster of Rugby
III.--As Teacher and Preacher
IV.--Influence of the Great Teacher
AGNES STRICKLAND
Life of Queen Elizabeth
I.--The Lady Elizabeth
II.--Mary Stuart and Saint Bartholomew
III.--The Hour of Mary's Doom
IV.--Elizabeth's Closing Years
JONATHAN SWIFT
Journal to Stella
LONDON, Sept. 9, 1710.
LONDON, NOV. 11, 1710.
CHELSEA, June, 1711.
LONDON, July, 1711.
LONDON, Dec. 1, 1711.
LONDON, Dec. 20, 1711.
LONDON, Feb. 26, 1712.
LONDON, April 6, 1713
LYOF N. TOLSTOY
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
I.--Childhood
II.--Boyhood
III.--Youth
My Confession
I.--Evil Early Years
II.--Groping in Darkness
III.--The Spirit of Despair
IV.--Mistakes Apprehended
V.--Feeling Versus Reason
PASQUALE VILLARI
The Life of Girolamo Savonarola
I.--1452-1494
II.--1475-1481
III.--1481-1490
IV.--1491
V.--1492-1494
VI.--1495-1497
VII.--1497-1498
JOHN WESLEY
Journal
The Holy Club
A Missioner to Georgia
Warrant for Wesley's Arrest
In London Again
Beau Nash Argues with Wesley
"All the World My Parish"
The Colliers of Kingswood
In Ireland
Clothing French Prisoners
Gwennap's Famous Amphitheatre
The American War
City Road Chapel Begun
Attended by Felons
Enters His 80th Year
His 86th Christmas
JOHN WOOLMAN
Journal
I.--The Curse of Slavery
II--Among the Indians
III.--Across the Atlantic
IV.--Prices, Wages, and Religion

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