CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. ALFRED THE GREAT Sir J. Bernard Burke LL.D. ST. AMBROSE Rev. A. Lambing LL.D. ARCHIMEDES John Timbs F.S.A. ARISTOTLE Fénelon ST. AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY Rt. Rev. Henry Codman Potter ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO James Cardinal Gibbons FRANCIS BACON Hon. Ignatius Donnelly WILLIAM BRADFORD Elbridge S. Brooks AUGUSTUS CÆSAR JOHN CALVIN CHARLES I. OF ENGLAND F. Hindes Groome Letter written on the eve of his execution by Charles I. to his son CHARLES V. OF GERMANY MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Rev. W. J. Brodribb NICHOLAS COPERNICUS John Stoughton D.D. OLIVER CROMWELL Lord Macaulay DAVID KING OF ISRAEL Margaret E. Sangster DEMOSTHENES E. Benjamin Andrews DIOGENES Fénelon ELIZABETH QUEEN OF ENGLAND Samuel L. Knapp FREDERICK THE GREAT ELECTOR GALILEO GALILEI JOHN HUSS Rev. Dr. Tweedy ISABELLA OF CASTILE Sarah H. Killikelly JUSTINIAN THE GREAT JOHN KNOX P. Hume Brown LOUIS XI. OF FRANCE E. Spencer Biesly M.A. LOUIS XIV. Oliver Optic MARTIN LUTHER Letter of affection from Luther to his little son Hans LYCURGUS Rev. Joseph T. Duryea MAHOMET MOSES Henry George ST. PATRICK Rev. G. F. Maclear B.D. WILLIAM PENN PERICLES CARDINAL RICHELIEU SOCRATES Fénelon SOLOMON Rev. Charles F. Deems THEMISTOCLES (p. v) LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME III. PHOTOGRAVURESILLUSTRATION - ARTIST JUSTINIAN AND HIS COUNCIL Benjamin Constant FrontispieceMOSES IN THE BULRUSHES Paul Delaroche THE VICTORS OF SALAMIS Fernand Cormon DEMOSTHENES PRACTISING ORATORY Jules Jean Lecomte-du-Nouy AUGUSTUS CÆSAR AND CLEOPATRA August von Heckel LOUIS XI. AND OLIVIER LE DAIN Hermann Kaulbach MARTIN LUTHER BEFORE THE COUNCIL OF WORMS E. Delperte CHARLES V. ON HIS WAY TO THE CONVENT Hermann Schneider MOLIERE AT BREAKFAST WITH LOUIS XIV. Jean Lêon Gérôme WOOD-ENGRAVINGS AND TYPOGRAVURESDAVID CALMING THE WRATH OF SAUL J. J. Lefebvre JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON Jos. Führich DEATH OF SOCRATES Louis David DIOGENES IN HIS TUB Jean Lêon Gérôme DEATH OF ARCHIMEDES Gustave Courtois AMBROSE REBUKES THEODOSIUS Peter Paul Rubens ST. AUGUSTINE AND HIS MOTHER ST. MONICA Ary Scheffer ST. PATRICK JOURNEYING TO TARA CONVERSION OF ETHELBERT BY AUGUSTINE H. Tresham THE MUEZZIN Jean Lêon Gérôme KING ALFRED VISITING A MONASTERY SCHOOL Benziger EXECUTION OF HUSS C. G. Hellquist FERDINAND AND ISABELLA—THE SURRENDER OF GRANADA F. de Pradilla COPERNICUS O. Brausewetter LUTHER INTRODUCED TO THE HOME OF FRAU COTTA G. Spangenberg ELIZABETH AND MARY STUART Hermann Kaulbach GALILEO BEFORE THE INQUISITION A CONCERT AT RICHELIEU'S PALACE J. Leisten A PURITAN CHRISTMAS Hyde PRINCESS ELIZABETH IN PRISON J. Everett Millais CROMWELL'S DAUGHTER ENTREATS HIM TO REFUSE THE CROWN THE GREAT ELECTOR WITHDRAWS FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF THE DUTCH NOBILITY F. Neuhaus