Viewpoints in Biography

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Wallace, Lewis. Lew Wallace; an autobiography. 2 v. Harper, 1906. Dramatic as one of his novels is Lew Wallace's story of his own life from his earliest days through the Civil War. MISSIONS The lives under Social Servick show much the same spirit as those in this group. Grenfell, Wilfred T. A Labrador...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Wallace, Lewis. Lew Wallace; an autobiography. 2 v. Harper, 1906. Dramatic as one of his novels is Lew Wallace's story of his own life from his earliest days through the Civil War. MISSIONS The lives under Social Servick show much the same spirit as those in this group. Grenfell, Wilfred T. A Labrador doctor; the autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell. Houghton, 1919. No danger has disconcerted Dr. Grenfell in his work among the fisher folk of Labrador and Newfoundland. Judson, Ann Hasseltine. Hubbard, E. D. Ann of Ava. Missionary Education Movement, 1913. Ann Hasseltine Judson was the wife of the first missionary to Burma. Lacombe, Albert. Hughes, Katharine. Father Lacombe?the black-robed-voyageur. Moffat, 1911. His life, devoted and self-sacrificing, has been like peaceful moonlight. ?W. C. Van Home. Slessor, Mary Mitchell. Livingstone, William Pringle. Mary Slessor of Calabar; pioneer missionary. Doran, 1917. A biography filled with charm, heroism and adventure, vigorous achievement and the freshness of pioneering. MUSIC Berlioz, Hector. Autobiography; tr. from the French by Rachel and Eleanor Holmes. 2 v. Macmillan, 1884. Berlioz prefaces his life with a quotation from Macbeth ending It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. But no quotation could be more inapt. This is an excellent translation of a fully lived and fully written life. Bispham, David. A Quaker singer's recollections. Macmillan, 1919. The strange tale unfolded by a distinguished American baritone moves on through the drab existence of boyhood to the colorful middle years when scarcely a goal is unattained. Chopin, Frederic. Huneker, James Gibbons. Chopin, the man and his music. Scribner, 1900. In this biography some of th...