A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches ofTHE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN HISTORYCharles Francis Horne (1870-1942) was an American author and editor. He edited many multiple volume collections at the beginning of the twentieth century including: Great Men and Famous Women (8 volumes, 1894), The Story of the Greatest Nations (with Edward S. Ellis) (10 volumes, 1901-1906), Works of Jules Verne (15 volumes, 1911), The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East (14 volumes, 1917), and The Great Events by Famous Historians (with Rossiter Johnson and John Rudd) (21 volumes).ALARIC THE BOLD, ALEXANDER THE GREAT, MARC ANTONY, ATTILA, BELISARIUS, GODFREY DE BOUILLON, JULIUS CAESAR, CHARLEMAGNE, CLOVIS THE FIRST, GASPARD DE COLIGNI, HERNANDO CORTES, CYRUS THE GREAT, DIOCLETIAN, SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, EDWARD I. OF ENGLAND, EDWARD III. OF ENGLAND, EDWARD, THE BLACK PRINCE, BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, HANNIBAL, HENRY IV. OF FRANCE, HENRY V

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788-1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents to their philosophical vision.