Civil Service Reform League, Chicago, Ills.,
December 12, 1894.




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

GEORGE W. CURTIS--Frontispiece
From a painting by SAMUEL LAWRENCE.

JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE
From a photograph.

HENRY W. BEECHER .
Wood-engraving from photograph.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Wood-engraving from photograph.

JAMES G. BLAINE
Wood-engraving from photograph.




INTRODUCTION TO THE FOURTH VOLUME.


The fourth and last volume of the American Eloquent e deals with