MADAME DE STAEL 161
ELIZABETH FRY 187
MARY LAMB 213
JANE AUSTEN 235
EMPRESS JOSEPHINE 257
MARY W. SHELLEY 283




ELBERT HUBBARD II

BERT HUBBARD

We are not sent into this world to do anything into which we can
not put our hearts. We have certain work to do for our bread and
that is to be done strenuously, other work to do for our delight
and that is to be done heartily; neither is to be done by halves
or shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth this effort is
not to be done at all.
--_John Ruskin_


I am Elbert Hubbard's son, and I am entirely familiar with the proposition
that "Genius never reproduces."

Heretofore, it has always been necessary to sign my name, "Elbert Hubbard
II"--but now there is an embarrassment in that signature, an assumption
that I do not feel.