Volume I. The Old Pagan Civilizations
Ancient Religions
Religions of India
Religion of the Greeks and Romans
Confucius
Ancient Philosophy
Socrates
Phidias
Literary Genius
Volume II. Jewish Heroes and Prophets
Abraham
Joseph
Moses
Samuel
David
Solomon
Elijah
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Judas Maccabaeus
Saint Paul
Volume III. Ancient Achievements
Governments and Laws
The Fine Arts
Ancient Scientific Knowledge
Material Life of the Ancients
The Military Art
Cicero
Cleopatra
Pagan Society
Volume IV. Imperial Antiquity
Cyrus the Great
Julius Caesar
Marcus Aurelius
Constantine the Great
Paula
Chrysostom
Saint Ambrose
Saint Augustine
Theodosius the Great
Leo the Great
Volume V. The Middle Ages
Charlemagne
Hildebrand
Saint Bernard
Saint Anselm
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Becket
The Feudal System
The Crusades
William of Wykeham
John Wyclif
Volume VI. Renaissance and Reformation
Dante
Geoffrey Chaucer
Christopher Columbus
Savonarola
Michael Angelo
Martin Luther
Thomas Cranmer
Ignatius Loyola
John Calvin
Francis Bacon
Galileo
Volume VII. Great Women
Héloïse
Joan of Arc
Saint Theresa
Madame De Maintenon
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
Madame Récamier
Madame De Staël
Hannah More
George Eliot
Volume VIII. Great Rulers
Alfred the Great
Queen Elizabeth
Henry of Navarre
Gustavus Adolphus
Cardinal De Richelieu
Oliver Cromwell
Louis XIV
Louis XV
Peter the Great
Frederic the Great
Volume IX. European Statesmen
Mirabeau
Edmund Burke
Napoleon Bonaparte
Prince Metternich
Chateaubriand
George IV
The Greek Revolution
Louis Philippe
Volume X. European Leaders
William IV
Sir Robert Peel
Cavour
Czar Nicholas
Louis Napoleon
Prince Bismarck
William Ewart Gladstone
Volume XI. American Founders
The American Idea (Preliminary Chapter)
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
John Marshall
Volume XII. American Leaders
Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
John C. Calhoun
Abraham Lincoln
Robert Edward Lee
Volume XIII. Great Writers
Rousseau
Sir Walter Scott
Lord Byron
Thomas Carlyle
Lord Macaulay
Shakespeare; or, the Poet
John Milton: Poet and Patriot
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Alfred (Lord) Tennyson
Volume XIV. The New Era
Richard Wagner
John Ruskin
Herbert Spencer
Charles Darwin
John Ericsson
Li Hung Chang
David Livingstone
Sir Austen Henry Layard
Michael Faraday
Rudolf Virchow
