COPYRIGHT, 1900,

BY

THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY

PN. 6121 NG 1760 19

COMMITTEE OF SELECTION

EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Author of "The Man Without a

Country.”
John B. GORDON, Former United States Senator.
NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, Associate Editor “International

Library of Famous Literature."
JAMES B. POND, Manager Lecture Bureau; Author of " Eccen-

tricities of Genius.'
GEORGE MCLEAN HARPER, Professor of English Literature,

Princeton University.
LORENZO SEARS, Professor of English Literature, Brown Uni-

versity.
Edwin M. BACON, Former Editor “ Boston Advertiser and

Boston Post.”
J. WALKER McSPADDEN, Managing Editor “ Édition Royale"

of Balzac's Works.
F. CUNLIFFE OWEN, Member Editorial Staff "New York

Tribune.”
TRUMAN A. DEWEESE, Member Editorial Staff “ Chicago

Times-Herald."
CHAMP CLARK, Member of Congress from Missouri.
Marcus BENJAMIN, Editor, National Museum, Washington,

D. C.
CLARK HOWELL, Editor “ Atlanta Constitution."

INTRODUCTIONS AND SPECIAL ARTICLES BY

THOMAS B. REED, HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE,
LORENZO SEARS,

JONATHAN P. DOLLIVER,
CHAMP CLARK,

EDWARD EVERETT HALE,
ALBERT ELLERY BERGH.

NOTE.-A large number of the most distinguished speakers of this country and Great Britain have selected their own best speeches for this Library. These speakers include Whitelaw Reid, William Jennings Bryan, Henry van Dyke, Henry M. Stanley, Newell Dwight Hillis, Joseph Jefferson, Sir Henry Irving, Arthur T. Hadley, John D. Long, David Starr Jordan, and many others of equal note.