Excerpt from Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America, Vol. 1 of 2: Embracing History, Statesmanship, Naval and Military Life, Philosophy, the Drama, Science, Literature and Art, With Biographies The various modes of illustrious achievement. All the great nations OF europe supply their men of thought and action, their great sovereigns, their founders of governments, their distinguished military Chieftains, their statesmen, their philanthropists, their scientific discoverers, their poets and artists. The new birth of italy is exhibited in the record of Cavour, Garibaldi, and Victor Emanuel, and the early rule of Pope Pius; france has her Marie Antoinette, her Charlotte Corday, her Napoleons, her Thiers; russia, her Alexander, with his grand work of national reform germany emerges from the old revolution with her Goethe, Schiller, Humboldt, to enter upon the empire with King William, Bismarck and Von Moltke england is illustrated from the days of Johnson to those of Dickens and Tennyson in literature; she has her statesmen in Bright, Cobden and Gladstone; her warriors on sea and land in Nelson and Wellington; her philanthropists of both sexes from Wilberforce to Florence Nightingale; her race of female novelists from Jane Austen to Charlotte Bronte; her inventors in such examples as Stephenson and Faraday; scotland has her Burns, Scott and Livingstone; ireland her Burke, Goldsmith, Edge worth, Curran, Grattan, and O'connell; while in the united states, all of the classes we have alluded to are represented in Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Grant, Webster, Fulton, Morse, Peabody, Bryant and others of either sex, and so we might enumerate the whole of the hundred and more subjects of these biographies. In no work of the kind, thus far published, has the same attention been given to female biography and portraiture. One-third of the portraits will be of illustrious women, eminent in history, literature, art or philanthropy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.