. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. orthy person whom he knew, and to him he entrusted the great fund, to keep it until called for, the reward being that no interest should be a
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. orthy person whom he knew, and to him he entrusted the great fund, to keep it until called for, the reward being that no interest should be asked. Under these circumstances the trust was accepted, and with the aid of some Jewish bankers atCassel, the money was so secreted that the French, upon their arrival, found only the landgrave gone, and his treas-ure the time of receiving this money, Meyer Anselm Rothschild had five sons, three of whom, grown to manhood, he associated with himself, and by careful management as bankers this money rapidly multiplied itself. On the fall of Napoleon, the landgrave returned and gave notice to the bankers that he would withdraw his loan; but the escape of the French General from the Isle of Elba so alarmed him that he urged the Roths-childs to keep the money at an interest of two per cent, per annum, which they did until bis death, in 1823, when they refused to keep it the time of the elder RothschildV death, in 1813, when he was. rriH Nathan Meyer Rothschild HE representation given above is of Nathan, the mostdistinguished financial representative of the Rothschildfamily. He was in his prime as a banker in London whenNapoleon I. was in his glory in France. As illustrativeof his enterprise it is said, antici pating the battle of Water-loo, he had a relay of horses all the way from the battleground to London, and after witnessing the defeat of Na-poleon, he, personally, with the aid of fresh horses everj- fewmiles, sped homeward and reached London nearly two day
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