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BIOGRAPHY
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LIST OF CONTENTS
Introductory Remarks
Sir Christopher Wren
Miguel de Cervantes
George Bernard Shaw
Sir Humphrey Davy
J. S. Mill
François Liszt
Lord Clive
King Edward the Confessor
The Rev. John Clifford, M.A., LL.B., D.D.
Messrs Chapman & Hall
Karl IVlarx
Otto the Great
Marconi
David Hume
Mr H. Belloc
Job
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The Duke of Fife, K.T., P.C., G.C.V.O.
The Duke of Wellington
John Bunyan
George Hirst
Erasmus and the Humanists
Besant and Rice
Tiziano Vecelli
Professor J ames Dewar, F.R.S.
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Jane Austin
Odo of Bayeux
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Sir Thomas à Mallory
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President Roosevelt
Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford
Sir Alexander FuIler Ac1and-Hood, M.P.
Mahomet
Edvard Grieg
Jan Van Eyck
Mr T. \Verner Laurie
Index of Psychology
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The Art of Biography
Is different fron1 Geography.
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Sir Christopher Wren
Said, cc I am going to dine with some men.
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11lGUEL DE CERVANTES
The people of Spain think Cervantes
Equal to half-a-dozen Dantes:
An opinion resented most bitterly
By the people of Italy.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Mr Bernard Shaw
Was just setting out for the war,
When he heard it was a dangerous trade
And demonstrably underpaid.
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY
Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
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Dr Clifford
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Chapman & Hall
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