ERNEST RENAN

VOLUME XV

Recent Great
Autobiographies

(1860-1914)

INCLUDING THE SELF-NARRATIVES OF

ERNEST RENAN, the great French historian; THOMAS HUXLEY, the literary champion of modern science; LEO TOLSTOY, greatest of Russian teachers; ARMINIUS VAMBERY, first of Asiatic explorers; SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, most noted of Scottish scientists; SONYA KOVALEVSKY, a Russian woman pioneer; OSCAR WILDE, dramatist and aesthete; MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF, the frankest revealer of the feminine heart; CLARENCE HAWKES, a true American hero; and CLIFFORD BEERS, the autobiographer of insanity.

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY

MARY E. WOOLLEY

President of Mount Holyoke College

This volume is issued as part of a complete set of The University
Library of Autobiography, composed of fifteen volumes. Volume
I contains the authenticated certificate as to the limitation of the
edition and the registered number of this set.

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY

F. TYLER DANIELS COMPANY
INCORPORATED