Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. II (of 2)

About this eBook

Editor

Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924

Title

Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 2 (of 2) Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them

Credits

E-text prepared by Emmy, Sharon Joiner, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

E660: History: America: Late nineteenth century (1865-1900)

Subject

United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography

Category

Text

eBook-No.

48175

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48175

Release Date

February 10, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LITTLE VISITS WITH GREAT AMERICANS
2. 2.XXXIV A “Printer’s Devil” Whose Perseverance Wins Him Well-Earned Reputation as a Fun-Maker. — STUDIES OUT HIS IDEAS. — A PRINTER’S DEVIL. — GOOD USE OF LEISURE TIME. — HIS CONNECTION WITH “PUCK.” — THE “SUBURBAN RESIDENT.”
3. 3.XXXV “A Square Man in a Round Hole” Rejects $5,000 a Year and Becomes a Sculptor. — MADE HIS FIRST SKETCH AT TWENTY-FIVE. — HE GAVE UP A LARGE SALARY TO PURSUE ART. — THE INSPIRATION THAT COUNTS.
4. 4.XXXVI During Leisure Hours He “Found Himself” and Abandoned the Law for Art. — A PET DOG HIS FIRST PAINTING. — A UNIQUE EXPERIMENT WITH A HORSE.
5. 5.XXXVII Deformed in Body, His Cheerful Spirit Makes Him the Entertainer of Princes. — NATURE’S LAW OF COMPENSATION. — HOW HE TOOK JOSEPH JEFFERSON’S LIFE.
6. 6.XXXVIII Energy and Earnestness Win an Actor Fame. — HOW TO FIND SUCCESS. — HE BEGAN AS A DRY GOODS CLERK. — HE GIVES INFINITE ATTENTION TO DETAIL.
7. 7.XXXIX A Father’s Common Sense Gives America a Great Bandmaster. — IN THE MARINE BAND. — HIS FIRST SUCCESSFUL WORK. — A MAN WHO NEVER RESTS. — HOW SOUSA WORKS.
8. 8.XL Blind, Deaf, and Dumb, Patient Effort Wins for Her Culture and Rare Womanhood. — HELEN KELLER AT HOME. — HER AMBITION. — HEREDITY AND CHILDHOOD. — HELEN’S FIRST TEACHER. — PREPARING FOR COLLEGE. — HER IDEAL OF A SUCCESSFUL CAREER.
9. 9.XLI Jay Gould’s Chum Chooses “High Thinking, not Money Making,” and Wins Success Without Riches. — DIFFERENT WAYS OF BEING SUCCESSFUL. — A WORTHY AIM IN LIFE. — JAY GOULD WAS HIS CHUM. — HE BEGAN WRITING AT SIXTEEN. — WHAT NATURE STUDY REALLY MEANS. — WHY HE IS RICH WITHOUT MONEY.
10. 10.XLII A Millionaire’s Daughter Makes Inherited Wealth a Blessing to Thousands. — A FACE FULL OF CHARACTER. — HER AMBITIONS AND AIMS. — A MOST CHARMING CHARITY. — UNHERALDED BENEFACTIONS. — HER MEANS OF EDUCATION. — THE EVIL OF IDLENESS.
11. 11.XLIII A Self-made Merchant Solves the Problem of Practical Philanthropy — PRACTICAL BENEFICENCE NOT MERE CHARITY. — HE DOES NOT WOUND THEIR SELF-RESPECT. — HE IS A KEEN, ENERGETIC MANAGER. — ONWARD, EVER; UPWARD, ALWAYS.
12. 12.XLIV A Varied Career Develops the Resourceful Head of a Great Institutional Church and College. — HE ENLISTED AT EIGHTEEN. — HOUSEKEEPING IN TWO SMALL ROOMS. — HOW HE ENTERED THE MINISTRY. — HE IS ALWAYS STUDYING SOMETHING.
13. 13.XLV An Inspiring Personality Wins a Noted Preacher Fame. — CAN A PREACHER BE A POWER? — MEN WHO INFLUENCED HIM. — HE DID NOT PRETEND TO PIETY. — ARE THE DICE OF LIFE LOADED? — A MINISTER’S TRUE IDEAL. — HIS WORK IN CHICAGO. — HOW TO MEET GREAT EMERGENCIES.
14. 14.XLVI From the Forge to the Pulpit, a Life of Devotion and Application. — THE LIGHT THAT LED OVER THE SEA. — GENIUS IS DEVOTION AND APPLICATION.
15. 15.XLVII Canada’s Leading Conservative Extols “the Country of the Twentieth Century.”
16. 16.XLVIII An Eminent Scholar Advocates the Union of Canada and the United States.
17. 17.XLIX After Failure as a Grocer, He Becomes the Ablest Administrator Quebec Has Ever Had.
18. 18.L Canada’s Leading Economist Tells Her Sons To Seek Fortune in Her Own Domain.
19. 19.LI A Distinguished Educator has Found Contentment in the Simple Life.
20. 20.LII Beginning as Telegraph Operator He Built the Canadian Pacific.
21. 21.LIII An Immigrant Boy Becomes a National Figure in Reform. — LOVED BY HIS EMPLOYEES. — BORN IN A HUMBLE HOME. — THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES. — GOOD WILL AND FELLOWSHIP IN BUSINESS. — TRYING TO LEARN HOW TO HELP EACH OTHER. — YOUNG MEN IN POLITICS. — EVILS OF CONCENTRATION. — A WRONG CONCEPTION OF SUCCESS. — SLAVES OF WEALTH.
22. 22.LIV A “Forty-niner” who Seized Opportunities Others Failed to See. — A BOY’S CHANCE TO-DAY. — INHERITED QUALITIES. — LEAVING THE FARM. — A MINING VENTURE. — HE ENTERS THE GRAIN MARKET. — QUALITIES THAT BRING SUCCESS. — THE GENESIS OF A GREAT BENEVOLENCE. — A BUSINESS KING. — FOREARMED AGAINST PANIC. — SOME SECRETS OF SUCCESS.
23. 23.LV The Blind Yacht Designer Attributes His Conquests to His Mother’s Early Cares. — LET THE WORK SHOW. — A MOTHER’S MIGHTY INFLUENCE. — PREPARE TO THE UTMOST: THEN DO YOUR BEST. — THE MAN IS THE IMPORTANT FACTOR. — THE DEVELOPMENT OF ABILITY. — HE WOULD NOT BE DISCOURAGED.
24. 24.LVI A Great Vocalist Shows that Only Years of Labor Can Win the Heights of Song. — THERE MUST BE NO PLAY, ONLY STUDY AND PRACTICE. — “I WAS TRAVELING ON AIR.” — HER FIRST EUROPEAN TOUR. — “WHY DON’T YOU SING IN GRAND OPERA?” — THIS WAS HER CROWNING TRIUMPH. — THE KINDNESS OF FRAU WAGNER. — THE MUSICAL TALENT OF AMERICAN GIRLS.
25. 25.BOOK TWO MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE ACHIEVED EMINENCE
26. 26.Success Maxims
27. 27.BOOK THREE ENCYCLOPEDIC BIOGRAPHIES, OR THE ROMANCE OF REALITY.
28. 28.Success Maxims
29. 29.STATESMEN. — William Boyd Allison. — Grover Cleveland. — William Pierce Frye. — John Hay. — George Frisbie Hoar. — Henry Cabot Lodge. — Richard Olney. — Elihu Root.
30. 30.INDUSTRIAL LEADERS. — E. G. Acheson. — Charles Henry Cramp. — Charles Ranlett Flint. — Charles Melville Hays. — John B. Herreshoff. — Lewis Nixon. — John H. Patterson.
31. 31.MANUFACTURERS. — Hugh Chisholm. — Theodore Lowe De Vinne. — William Louis Douglas. — Charles Eastman. — Albert August Pope. — C. W. Post. — John Wilson Wheeler.
32. 32.TRANSPORTATION LEADERS. — George F. Baer. — August Belmont. — Alexander Johnston Cassatt. — George Henry Daniels. — George Jay Gould. — Clement Acton Griscom. — James J. Hill. — Melville Ezra Ingalls.
33. 33.INVENTORS. — Alexander Graham Bell. — Charles Francis Brush. — Santos Dumont. — Peter Cooper Hewitt. — John P. Holland. — William Marconi. — George Westinghouse.
34. 34.MERCHANTS. — Edward Cooper. — Robert Curtis Ogden. — Henry Siegel. — Frank W. Woolworth.
35. 35.FINANCIERS. — William Waldorf Astor. — Henry Clews. — Mrs. Hetty Green. — John Pierpont Morgan. — John Davison Rockefeller. — Charles Tyson Yerkes.
36. 36.POLITICAL LEADERS. — Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich. — William Jennings Bryan. — Arthur Pue Gorman. — Marcus Alonzo Hanna. — Carter Henry Harrison, Jr. — Joseph Wingate Folk.
37. 37.LAWYERS AND JURISTS. — Frank Swett Black. — Frederick René Coudert. — James Brooks Dill. — Melville Weston Fuller. — John William Griggs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes. — William Travers Jerome. — Joseph McKenna. — Alton Brooks Parker.
38. 38.SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. — Adna Romanza Chaffee. — George Dewey. — Robley Dunglison Evans. — Fred Funston. — Richmond Pearson Hobson. — Winfield Scott Schley. — William Rufus Shafter. — Joseph Wheeler.
39. 39.EXPLORERS. — Evelyn Briggs Baldwin. — Frederick Albert Cook. — Sven Anders Hedin. — E. Burton Holmes. — A. H. Savage Landor. — Fridtjof Nansen. — Robert Edwin Peary. — Henry Morton Stanley. — Walter Wellman.
40. 40.EDUCATORS. — Elisha Benjamin Andrews. — Nicholas Murray Butler. — Charles William Eliot. — William Herbert Perry Faunce. — Arthur Twining Hadley. — William Torrey Harris. — Henry Mitchell McCracken. — Woodrow Wilson.
41. 41.EDITORS. — Henry Mills Alden. — Edward William Bok. — James Monroe Buckley. — Richard Watson Gilder. — George Burton McClellan Harvey. — George Howard Lorimer. — Whitelaw Reid. — Albert Shaw. — Henry Watterson.
42. 42.PUBLISHERS. — Frank Nelson Doubleday. — Isaac Kauffman Funk. — William Randolph Hearst. — Edward Everett Higgins. — Louis Klopsch. — Samuel Sidney McClure. — Frank Andrew Munsey. — Joseph Pulitzer. — John Brisben Walker.
43. 43.ORATORS. — Albert J. Beveridge. — Champ Clark. — William Bourke Cockran. — John Warwick Daniels. — Carl Schurz.
44. 44.MUSICIANS. — Walter Johannes Damrosch. — Henry Lewis Reginald De Koven. — Maurice Grau. — Victor Herbert. — Leonora Jackson. — Franz Kneisel. — Maud Powell. — Theodore Thomas.
45. 45.SINGERS. — David Scull Bispham. — Emma Calvé. — Zelie de Lussan. — Edouard de Reszke. — Jean de Reszke. — Emma Eames. — Lillian Nordica. — Adelina Patti. — Marcella Stengel Sembrich.
46. 46.ACTORS. — William H. Crane. — John Drew. — William Hooker Gillette. — Nathaniel C. Goodwin. — James Keteltas Hackett. — Sir Henry Brodribb Irving. — Joseph Jefferson. — Edward H. Sothern.
47. 47.ACTRESSES. — Maude Adams. — Viola Allen. — Ethel Barrymore. — Mrs. Leslie Carter. — Eleanora Duse. — May Irwin. — Virginia Harned. — Mrs. Lillie Langtry. — Julia Marlowe.
48. 48.ORGANIZERS AND LECTURERS. — Cynthia May Westover Alden. — Clara Barton. — Francis Edward Clark. — Mary Lowe Dickinson. — Thomas Dixon, Jr. — Herbert Hungerford. — John Mitchell. — Ernest Thompson-Seton.
49. 49.CANADIANS. — Sir Wilfrid Laurier. — Lord Strathcona.
50. 50.ILLUSTRATORS. — William de Leftwich Dodge. — Charles Mente. — Thure de Thulstrup.
51. 51.CARTOONISTS. — T. S. Allen. — Charles G. Bush. — Louis Dalrymple. — Sydney B. Griffin. — R. F. Outcault. — Carl E. Schultze. — Eugene Zimmerman.
52. 52.HUMORISTS. — George Ade. — John Kendrick Bangs. — Samuel Langhorn Clemens. — Finley Peter Dunne. — Simeon Ford. — Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer. — George V. Hobart. — Melvin De Lancy Landon.
53. 53.JOURNALISTS AND WRITERS. — Stephen Bonsal. — Richard Harding Davis. — Hamlin Garland. — David G. Phillips. — Charles George Douglas Roberts. — William Thomas Stead. — Vance Thompson. — Stewart Edward White. — Owen Wister.
54. 54.POETS. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich. — Bliss Carman. — Richard Le Gallienne. — Robert Mackay. — Cincinnatus Heine Miller. — Henry Van Dyke.
55. 55.CANADIANS. — Dr. William Osler. — Sir George A. Drummond.
56. 56.AUTHORS. — James Lane Allen. — George Washington Cable. — Winston Churchill. — Francis Marion Crawford. — Rudyard Kipling. — Thomas Nelson Page. — Charles Major.
57. 57.NOVELISTS. — Gertrude Franklin Atherton. — Amelia Edith Barr. — Frances Hodgson Burnett. — Pearl Mary Theresa Craigie. — Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman. — Anna Katherine Greene. — Sarah Orne Jewett. — Constance Cary Harrison. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
58. 58.REFORMERS. — George Thorndike Angell. — Susan Brownell Anthony. — Frederick St. George de Lautour Booth-Tucker. — Anthony Comstock. — Wilbur Fiske Crafts. — Elbridge Thomas Gerry. — William Reuben George. — Charles Henry Parkhurst. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
59. 59.PHILANTHROPISTS. — Mrs. Phoebe Appersin Hearst. — Daniel Kimball Pearsons. — Mrs. Henry Codman Potter. — Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. — Mrs. Russell Sage. — Mrs. Leland Stanford. — Anson Phelps Stokes, Sr.
60. 60.DIVINES. — Lyman Abbott. — Theodore Ledyard Cuyler. — Edward Everett Hale. — Benjamin Fay Mills. — Henry Codman Potter. — William Taylor. — John Heyl Vincent.
61. 61.CANADIANS. — William Peterson. — George A. Cox. — Timothy Eaton. — Sir Thomas G. Shaughnessy. — William S. Fielding. — Charles Fitzpatrick. — George William Ross. — Lord Mount Stephen.
62. 62.BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX. [A] — FOOTNOTE:
63. 63.TOPICAL INDEX. — Introductory Note.
64. 64.TOPICAL INDEX. [B] — FOOTNOTE:

Community reviews

Sign in to write a review.

No reviews yet.