[Frontispiece: Henry Ward Beecher]





Garden City ---- New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1925
Copyright, 1916, by
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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
the extract concerning Elihu Burritt; to George W. Jacobs & Co. for the
extract from Booker T. Washington's "Frederick Douglass"; to P. B.
Bromfield for permission to use passages from "The Biography of Henry
Ward Beecher"; to the late Booker T. Washington for permission to