Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . e de NeilvilU 58 RICHARD CCEUR DE LION ON THE FIELD OF ARSUR, . Gl/Stove Dori 74 THE VISION OF ST. FRANCIS, Chartran 84 THE EDUCATION OF LOUIS IX Chartran 86 GUTENBERGS INVENTION, E. Htllemacher 126 THE FIRST SHEET FROM CAXTONs PRESS, F. H. Wehnert I30 COLUMBUS RIDICULED AT THE COUNCIL OF SALAMANCA, Nicolo Barabino I34 BAYARD TAKING LEAVE OF THE LADIES OF BRESCIA, . AlphotlSe de Neuvillc 150 ABDICATION OF GUSTAVUS VASA, Hersettt I56 CAPTAIN SMITH
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . e de NeilvilU 58 RICHARD CCEUR DE LION ON THE FIELD OF ARSUR, . Gl/Stove Dori 74 THE VISION OF ST. FRANCIS, Chartran 84 THE EDUCATION OF LOUIS IX Chartran 86 GUTENBERGS INVENTION, E. Htllemacher 126 THE FIRST SHEET FROM CAXTONs PRESS, F. H. Wehnert I30 COLUMBUS RIDICULED AT THE COUNCIL OF SALAMANCA, Nicolo Barabino I34 BAYARD TAKING LEAVE OF THE LADIES OF BRESCIA, . AlphotlSe de Neuvillc 150 ABDICATION OF GUSTAVUS VASA, Hersettt I56 CAPTAIN SMITH SAVED BY POCAHONTAS, GrOScll 168 HARVEY DEMONSTRATING THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD Robert Hannah 176 THE FIRST MEETING OF PRINCE CHARLES WITH FLORA MACDONALD, Alex. Johnstone 184 DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK, J- Webber I92 HOWARD RELIEVING A PRISONER, F. WheatUv _ I98 ETHAN ALLEN AT TICONDEROGA, AlonZO Chappel 204 Vol. V of 8 Vol. Ed. V WORKMEN AND HEROES The heights by g^eat men reached and keptWere not attained bj sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept,Were toiling upward in the night. —Longfellow. HERCULES By Charlotte M. Yonge. O .NE morning Jupiter boasted among thegods in Olympus that a son would thatday be born, in the line of Perseus, who wouldrule over all the Argives. Juno was angry andjealous at this, and, as she was the goddess whopresided over the births of children, she con-trived to hinder the birth of the child he in-tended till that day was over, and to hasten thatof another grandson of the great child was named Eurystheus, and, as hehad been born on the right day, Jupiter wasforced to let him be King of Argos, Sparta, andMycenae, and all the Dorian race ; while theboy whom he had meant to be the chief waskept in subjection, in spite of having wonder-ful gifts of courage and strength, and a kind,generous nature, that always was ready to helpthe weak and sorrowful. His name was Alcides, or Hercules, and hewas so strong at ten months old t
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