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[Illustration: Attila, "The Scourge of God".]




GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN


_A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of_

THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN HISTORY


VOL. I.




Copyright, 1894, BY SELMAR HESS

edited by Charles F. Horne

[Illustration: Publisher's arm.]

New-York: Selmar Hess Publisher


Copyright, 1894, by SELMAR HESS.




CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.


  SUBJECT                         AUTHOR                          PAGE

  ALARIC THE BOLD,            _Archdeacon Farrar, D.D., F.R.S._,    5