Biographical sketch and poems of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, early champion of states' rights, hero of San Jacinto, and second president of the Lone Star Republic.

A brief biography of the second president of the Republic of Texas, Mirabeau B. Lamar, that examines his life, military service, and years in politics.

About eight miles from Paris is the town of Versailles, which was but a poor little village when a great king took a fancy to it and built there a palace. His son was passionately fond of state and grandeur, and he resolved to add to the palace, room after room and gallery after gallery, until he had made it the most superb house in all the world. It is said the cost was so frightful that he never let anyone know what the sum total amounted to, but threw the accounts into the fire. This was Louis XIV., called by Frenchmen "Le grand Monarque." He reigned seventy-two years, having been a mere child when called to the throne.