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Title: Stories of Achievement, Volume IV, Authors and Journalists

Editor: Asa Don Dickinson

Release date: June 15, 2006 [eBook #18598]

Language: English

Credits: E-text prepared by Al Haines

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[Frontispiece: Robert Burns]

STORIES OF ACHIEVEMENT

EDITED BY

ASA DON DICKINSON

Authors and Journalists

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

ROBERT BURNS

CHARLOTTE BRONTE

CHARLES DICKENS

HORACE GREELEY

LOUISA M. ALCOTT

HENRY GEORGE

WILLIAM H. RIDEING

JACOB A. RIIS

HELEN KELLER

GARDEN CITY —— NEW YORK

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1925

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

In the preparation of this volume the publishers have received from several houses and authors generous permissions to reprint copyright material. For this they wish to express their cordial gratitude. In particular, acknowledgments are due to the Houghton Mifflin Company for permission to reprint the sketch of Horace Greeley; to Little, Brown & Co. for permission to reprint passages from "The Life, Letters, and Journals of Louisa May Alcott"; to Mr. Henry George, Jr., for the extract from his life of his father; to William H. Rideing for permission to reprint extracts from his book "Many Celebrities and a Few Others"; to the Macmillan Company for permission to use passages from "The Making of an American," by Jacob A. Riis; to Miss He