Excerpt from Traits of Representative Men This is not a book of biography, but of pen and pen cil pictures, and however inartistic they may be, the Writer hopes the lesson they are intended to convey will be of some little service, especially to the young. We are looking for the coming man. Has he come? Is he in our schools, in our workshops, in our ware houses, in public life? 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.