CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

PAGE.

Benjamin Franklin.-His FAME STILL CLIMBING TO HEAVENWHAT HE HAD DONE AT FIFTY-TWO-POOR RICHARD'S ADDRESS, 13

CHAPTER II.

Defence of a Great Man.-WAS DR. FRANKLIN MEAN?-JAMES
PARTON'S ANSWER,

CHAPTER III.

23

Sir Walter Scott and his Mother.-THE MOTHER'S EDUCATION-THE SON'S TRAINING-DOMESTIC LOVE AND SOCIAL DUTIES, 30

CHAPTER IV.

Abigail Adams.-THE WIFE OF OUR SECOND PRESIDENT—THE
MOTHER OF OUR SIXTH,

CHAPTER V.

Two Neighbors.-WHAT THEY GOT OUT OF LIFE,

CHAPTER VI.

38

Horace Greeley.-THE MOolder of PubliC OPINION-THE BRAVE
JOURNALIST,

CHAPTER VII.

Wendell Phillips.-THE TIMES WHEN HE APPEARED

"WHO IS

THIS FELLOW ?"-A FLAMING ADVOCATE OF LIBERTY-LIBERTY OF
SPEECH AND THOUGHT-POWER TO DISCERN THE RIGHT THE
MOB-BEATEN HERO TRIUMPHANT,.

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O. E. FULLER, A. M.,

AUTHOR OF "THE YEAR OF CHR ST," AND "IDEALS OF LIFE."

Illustrated.

"Find out what you are fitted for; work hard at that one thing, and keep
a brave, honest heart."

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