A LIBRARY OF
UNIVERSAL LITERATURE

IN FOUR PARTS

Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction
and the Great Orations

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NEW YORK
P. F. COLLIER AND SON

MCMI.

BOARD OF EDITORS

SCIENCE

ANGELO HEILPRIN, author of "The Earth and Its Story," etc.;
Curator Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

JOSEPH TORREY, JR., Ph.D., Instructor in Chemistry in Harvard
University.

RAY STANNARD BAKER, A.B., author of "The New Prosperity,"
etc.; Associate Editor of McClure's Magazine.

BIOGRAPHY

MAYO W. HAZELTINE, A.M., author of "Chats About Books," etc.;
Literary Editor of the New York Sun.

JULIAN HAWTHORNE, author of "Nathaniel Hawthorne and His
Wife," "History of the United States," etc.

CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS, A.B., A.M., author of "A History of
Canada"; late Professor of English and French Literature,
King's College.

FICTION

RICHARD HENRY STODDARD, author of "The King's Bell," etc.;
Literary Editor of the New York Mail and Express.

HENRY VAN DYKE, D.D., LL.D., author of "Little Rivers," etc.;
Professor of English Literature at Princeton University.
THOMAS NELSON PAGE, LL.D., Litt.D., author of "Red Rock," etc.

ORATIONS

HON. HENRY CABOT LODGE, A.B., LL.B., author of "Life of Daniel
Webster," etc.; U. S. Senator from Massachusetts.

HON. JOHN R. PROCTOR, President U. S. Civil Service Commission.
MORRIS HICKEY MORGAN, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor in Latin, Har-
vard University.

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