Part 12
There are fourteen biographies in this volume, dealing with the lives of Seneca and Epictetus, the great Roman philosophers; Joan of Arc, the warrior maid; Henry Clay, the statesman; Edwin Booth and Joseph Jefferson, the actors; John Howard Payne, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Alice and Phœbe Cary, and John G. Whittier, the poets; Alfred Russell Wallace, the scientist; Victor Hugo, the many-sided man of genius.
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=The Dream Child.=
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=A Mute Confessor.=
The romance of a Southern town. By WILL N. HARBEN, author of “White Marie,” “Almost Persuaded,” etc. Price: paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
=Redbank; Life on a Southern Plantation.=
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=Psychics. Facts and Theories.=
By Rev. MINOT J. SAVAGE. A thoughtful discussion of Psychical problems. Price: paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
=Civilization’s Inferno: Studies in the Social Cellar.=
By B. O. FLOWER. I. Introductory chapter. II. Society’s Exiles. III. Two Hours in the Social Cellar. IV. The Democracy of Darkness. V. Why the Ishmaelites Multiply. VI. The Froth and the Dregs. VII. A Pilgrimage and a Vision. VIII. Some Facts and a Question. IX. What of the Morrow? Price: paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
=Salome Shepard, Reformer.=
By HELEN M. WINSLOW. A New England story. Price: paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
=The Law of Laws.=
By S. B. WAIT. The author takes advance metaphysical grounds on the origin, nature, and destiny of the soul.
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=Life. A Novel.=
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=II. Money, Land, and Transportation.=
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=1. A New Declaration of Rights.= _Hamlin Garland._ =2. The Farmer, Investor, and the Railway.= _C. Wood Davis._ =3. The Independent Party and Money at Cost.= _R. B. Hassell._
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=III. Industrial Freedom. The Triple Demand of Labor.=
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=1. The Money Question.= _Hon. John Davis._ =2. The Sub-Treasury Plan.= _C. C. Post._ =3. The Railroad Problem.= _C. Wood Davis and Ex-Gov. Lionel A. Sheldon._
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.